An instance admin is able to set a retention time for a community on their server. It doesn’t delete the content from the remote instance, just the local, federated copy. It’s done on a community by community basis and the default is to not delete. The retention times on piefed.social are managed by rimu, and he’s not what you would call a meme-er(?), so they aren’t too long for meme-y(?) communities.
if that also deletes the images, I could see how that would save a ton of storage space to delete memes after they get old, and if it’s like Mastodon I think it only deletes the ones that come from remote instances
There are a lot of communities that have content which is amusing for a moment but which have no lasting value so I see no reason to keep paying to store it forever.
Seems like a solid idea and feature in my opinion as it eases the ability for anyone to prevent/call out ill-behaved fellow users, mods, and admins👍
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From the post screenshot:
I’m sorry what? but why?
An instance admin is able to set a retention time for a community on their server. It doesn’t delete the content from the remote instance, just the local, federated copy. It’s done on a community by community basis and the default is to not delete. The retention times on piefed.social are managed by rimu, and he’s not what you would call a meme-er(?), so they aren’t too long for meme-y(?) communities.
if that also deletes the images, I could see how that would save a ton of storage space to delete memes after they get old, and if it’s like Mastodon I think it only deletes the ones that come from remote instances
Yes it deletes the images, to save space.
There are a lot of communities that have content which is amusing for a moment but which have no lasting value so I see no reason to keep paying to store it forever.
Totally fair! That would definitely make a huge difference in server costs, and I’ve seen the same thing used effectively on Mastodon
Reading your comment in addition to the comment chain it makes more sense now and honestly seems pretty reasonable🫡