I run the midwest.social instance as well as the undernopretext.social mastodon instance
Relevant song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fKaWQK2k3w
I follow a rule that I saw written in sharpie at a hipster bar bathroom in Calgary, Alberta: piss in the sink or sink in the piss.
I have an embroidered, velcro-backed patch of this for my range hat.
In my case docker didn’t have a default max size that logs would stop at, so they just grew and grew exponentially. I also had the highest log level turned on to debug something so it was constantly logging a bunch of data.
A cruel jape!