diff --git a/k8s/apps/gotify/db.yaml b/k8s/apps/gotify/db.yaml
index c581253..b3792e3 100644
--- a/k8s/apps/gotify/db.yaml
+++ b/k8s/apps/gotify/db.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     argocd.argoproj.io/sync-options: SkipDryRunOnMissingResource=true
 spec:
-  instances: 3
+  # 2, not 3. The file's own header always said 2, and the third instance never
+  # existed as a running pod: its volume only ever held a replica that could not
+  # start, because talos-cp-2 disk2 has no free space. A third replica on a disk
+  # that cannot host it is not redundancy, it is a permanent degraded volume.
+  instances: 2
   imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16.2
   bootstrap:
     initdb: