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.
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.
Reading your comment in addition to the comment chain it makes more sense now and honestly seems pretty reasonable🫡
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