And we are back up. Sorry for the downtime, y'all.
We ran completely out of disc space and things ground to a halt. After a lot of swearing I was able to free up enough space to run the command that clears out the local cache of media from other instances, and, well... that sure was a lot of space, wasn't it?
I created a bogus file that does nothing but waste about as much space as I had to clear out before I could get this running.
I think I also definitely need to get that "delete old stuff cached from remote instances" task running regularly.
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@anthracite In my experience (tho not with masto), ephemeral caches tend to be neither. Still, holy wow, that was a fair amount! 
Yayness for success and experience gain! 
