Note by @fastfinge

@rimu @brasil For now, I've gotten my Lymmy cleanup scripts doing things properly, and I've brought the server load down from 36.7 to around 5.4 on an 8 core box. And I thought AWS was required by piefed for images. Lemmy uses pict-rs and that can handle storage on the local filesystem, until I find a provider of object storage that's actually accessible and not evil (I'm not holding my breath).