We're laying the groundwork to retire Redis namespaces from a future release of the Mastodon server code. See the update from @daveDavid Roetzel on GitHub - and let us know in that discussion if you have additional questions. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34198#discussioncomment-12992222
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