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)
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.
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.
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”.
Anybody who has had a smartphone for a decade likely has at minimum 10k photos in their cloud locker with local thumbnail.