@ernmander I suggest starting here: https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/117361644335860123
It's possible the answer to your question but reach out if you want me to have a look.
Some Mastodon servers have been seeing sudden spikes in remote media storage over the past few months, caused by bots crawling public pages and forcing Mastodon to re-download old media. I wrote a short post on what's happening and how to reduce it: https://masto.host/sudden-spik
MastodonMasto.host (@[email protected])Some Mastodon servers have been seeing sudden spikes in remote media storage over the past few months, caused by bots crawling public pages and forcing Mastodon to re-download old media. I wrote a short post on what's happening and how to reduce it: https://masto.host/sudden-spikes-in-remote-media-storage/