Anybody who has had a smartphone for a decade likely has at minimum 10k photos in their cloud locker with local thumbnail.
A quick search got me to twitter stats from 2013 when people were posting 200 billion tweets per year. Thats 5-6 orders of magnitude more. You don't get a 10000x improvement just by federating and hosting multiple nodes.
I have every email I've ever received or sent (and not deleted) and it's only 4GB.
Should something require I download all that every time I login? No. But having a local copy is amazing, and a truly federated system should have and even be able to depend on those.
The Mastodon Server Covenant is a joke; the only enforcement is to remove the server from the list of signup servers; which if it just fell over dead because the admin died/doesn't care/got arrested/got a job will not matter.
My work email is 10gb.
Seriously. This is setting off all sorts of red flags. I’m old enough not to trust non w3c standards.
Ah, email, where a message of 114 characters with no formatting ends up over 9KB due to authentication and signatures, spam analysis stuff, delivery path information and other metadata. Sigh. Although I doubt this will end up as large as email, the lesson is that metadata can end up surprisingly large.
In this instance, I think 1–2KB is probably more realistic than the half kilobyte of “double it”.
theyre tweets, how much could they cost? @ 280 bytes each, that's like 15MB. double it for cryptographic signatures and reply-to metadata. is that really too much to ask for the capacity to transfer to another host at anytime?
(also, leaving aside the fact that 55k tweets puts you in the 0.1% of most prodigious users)