David Carroll

Your local server admin appreciates when you setup Automatic Post Deletion in your account settings to save on storage space. One of the options in the settings is to preserve posts that you favorite. So while it might be a bit embarrassing on the #birdsite to be Liking your own tweets it seems quite useful to fav your own toots that you want to save from auto-delete on #mastodon

Shortcut: your.instance/statuses_cleanup

#MastoAdmin #FediTips

Nov 17, 2022 at 4:15pmWeb
Show threadMatt BlazeNov 17, 2022
@profcarroll This is a thing I worry about. I like the idea that there's an archive, and I don't want to worry about deciding in advance what will be important in the future. How much of the cost of running an instance is storage? What can we as users do to help defray the costs?
Show threadBen HardillNov 17, 2022

@mattblaze @profcarroll text is tiny and compresses well, the big hitter is going to be the media/images/...

But with only local (to your instance) full text search, how much use will the archive be?

Show threadDavid CarrollNov 17, 2022
@mattblaze We’re at 39% disk capacity atm and I still need to observe how our host automates storage mgmt over time. We can easily add-on another 4 threads/4GB DB RAM/40GB storage for $10/mo. as needed. So far seems quite manageable at our current scale (Constellation with ElasticSearch $49/mo). Member donations so far have been incredibly generous. We’re almost funded for a year at the current capacity. All kind of amazing tbh.
Show threadMatt BlazeNov 17, 2022
@profcarroll I hope we develop strong norms about providing financial and other support to your local instance.
Show threadDavid CarrollNov 17, 2022
@mattblaze Indeed, a work in progress. We could benefit from a Fiscal Sponsor at OpenCollective willing to sponsor us to formalize it without the overhead of setting up my own entity etc
Show threadShomilaNov 17, 2022
@profcarroll thanks for the #feditips - one of the things I’ve found hard it going back to old posts I published as my profile feed shows everything I boosted or favorited (which is a lot!). I wasn’t aware they get automatically deleted and some of them were amazing, really I promise 😆
Show threadNmHackingNov 17, 2022
@profcarroll good to know thank you 🙏 while you’re handing out #mastadontips …how do I change the cover pic?
Show threadDebra StorrNov 17, 2022
@profcarroll oh clever!
Show threadTracy HallNov 17, 2022

@profcarroll

Since the "favorite is *only* a marker, why *wouldn't* one do this?

Show threadKevinNov 18, 2022
@profcarroll good tip, appreciate that thx
Show threadRose Newell | codewordcreativeNov 21, 2022
@profcarroll Quirky. I'm gonna have to ponder that one... I like keeping (all) my post history there. But... I see the advantages.