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[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For anyone else who was thinking of starting an instance, local storage is still a no-go right now

S3-Compatible Storage Required Currently, Loops requires an S3-compatible filesystem (like AWS S3, MinIO, or DigitalOcean Spaces) for avatar and video storage. Support for local storage is on the way but is not yet implemented. Please ensure you have S3 credentials ready before proceeding.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

To be fair, you can simply selfhost MinIO.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I wouldn't bother implementing local storage if I could easily roll a local S3 in the docker-compose.yaml.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cloudflare provides 10 GB of free (forever) S3 compatible storage too.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but why would I make myself dependent on Cloudflare.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good to know, thank you! I haven't touched S3 storage yet in my self hosting journey

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

It's an exciting world of file-to-object-to-file thunking. I'm surprised when it all works.