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!GNUsocial announcement for the !fediverse:
»quitter.is will soon start pruning posts/files that are >6 months old and not part of a favourited/repeated conversation»
(this will happen when I code the code and do the dos! cc: @postblue)
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@tuttle Not default behaviour, but enablable and configurable (age + "all" vs. "out of context").
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@mmn will this break old conversation threads or will the deleted posts be replaced by a placeholder to prevent this?
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@mcscx I don't think a "delete" verb should be sent out, because it's not generated by a human. Other instances should be allowed to have their own pruning policies without having to work around this feature.
If someone actually wants to send out a delete verb throughout the fediverse - and hope that the other site cares about it - then they can get some third party thing to do it via the API.
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@mcscx And my idea is that any post that is favourited will stay by default - and the conversation context as well (that is, if a reply to something is favourited then the parent post is saved as well as the recommended action to take).
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Clarification: "all", "favourited/repeated including context", "favourited/repeated _excluding_ context"
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...where the latter two are prepended by "skip".
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@postblue @zoowar In my case file sizes. I don't want to store gigabytes of crap for posts that have not been acknowledged. Maybe another configuration choice could be "delete only posts without any interaction at all" (i.e. having a reply is enough to keep it).
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@se7en why would I be? Or do you want to donate a larger SSD to me and everyone else who runs into a situation where this feature would solve the issue?
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@se7en Dude, chill. I bet that freezepeach will keep your garbage posts forever. Because you know when you don't pay for a service it's definitely going to be around forever exactly the way you want it. No need to host yourself to provide any kind of reliability. Just write your demands on some public gratis web forum and assume it's there forever! #sarcasmorwhatever
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@se7en one could perhaps also have a choice to only delete posts without conversations. Then you would see that noone's linked to it because there's been no Linkback (pingback/webmention).
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@se7en I think you missed the part that this won't be default behaviour and only something the administrator(s) can enable.
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@zoowar That sounds like a great idea! Of course it wouldn't work for people who use !GNUsocial just as a feed reader, but for a niche "being active is required" community it'd be great!
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@se7en Also we already provide a good, stable and reliable format for archiving data (Atom), in case you're afraid of losing your data to the tides.
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@se7en I find it odd that you use !GNUsocial as representing a certain kind of service. We're lots of services with different niches. Microblogging, photo blogging, ordinary blogging, news aggregation, discussion forum, whatever.
Not all of those categories will want this feature. Some will. Some admins may differ. We are #TheFederation. We are not Legion. We do not forgive, but some of us do. We do not forget, except sometimes.
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@dragnucs quitter.is is filling up some 30GiB and counting.
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@se7en I pity your restricted imagination, tied down by centralised services and the idea we would ever want to replicate their failed business models.
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@hannes2peer Good idea!
Also yes, all-in-all. Database is much smaller. StoreRemoteMedia is the culprit .]
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@dragnucs As I've mentioned in another reply it's all of the data required. People post images too, and they need to be hosted.
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@grmpyoldman Nah, in !GNUsoviet we don't differentiate between individual resource footprints. We are all in this together, let's not try to find a scapegoat!
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@grmpyoldman I think I understood you but my joke about the motherland didn't come through as I hoped :)
But I guess you could probably ask your admin about it - but there are no utilities readily available for that sort of analysis.
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I wrote an atom feed ripper sometime. You could use that. Remind me and I'll post the source.
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@mmn Speaking of Atom exports: I recently tried to reimport my posts on another host, but failed miserably. Is there a special way to do so? My atom file sizes ~40MB.
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@vinzv import doesn't work afaik .)
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@mmn That's a real pity. :(
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