David CarrollNov 17, 2022

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

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 Hardill

@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?

Nov 17, 2022 at 4:33pmWeb