“if you use pleroma you can disable caching entirely or just for domains that you don’t want cached for obvious reasons like pawoo/baraag.”
You mean pull media directly from their domains?
What I’m discussing with Pleroma derivative doesn’t do any caching of media on the server. The configuration I have just proxies the content when requested and Cloudflare does the caching.
“Meanwhile I’m running this single user instance on an old sparc from 2006”
That’s cool TBH. Considering those things can’t run Minecraft servers without hosing themselves quickly, I’m curious what the load of running that instance on such esoteric and old hardware?