I pipe the Mastodon media files cleanup script on berserker.town to my inbox. It doesn't know it's being piped though, so it dutifully prints the progress bars anyway...
I really don't understand why the Mastodon developers assume you'll be manually running these cleanup commands interactively in a terminal all the time. You have to run them very often if you don't want your disk costs to skyrocket. I stuffed all the cleanup commands in a single shell script like this and automated it with a crontab schedule, so I don't have to think about it:
@thor They are all part of the content retention settings.
The only thing that doesn't get called regularly is the remove-orphans function.
The function loops trough all folders and files on the S3 backed.
As many S3 providers charge also for every api call, this can become a very expensive action, very quickly.
As orphan files should not occur that often, it should only be used on a case by case basis.
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