A lot communities have "Posts older than 365 days will be removed." in their description, but what does this mean exactly? It never says.

  • The database of posts only goes as far as 1 year, everything older gets wiped? I hope and assume that's not it.
  • Posts with links to articles older than a year get removed?
  • If a thread is over a year old, no new comments will be added?
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[–] [S] 9 points 1 month ago

But I do think we’re in a data hoarding mentality and wish to preserve everything. I think it is important to let things go.

In general I'd agree, but I'd like to see a Web where search engines show more answers on the Fediverse/Lemmy instead of Reddit. If the default is removal after 365 days, this won't happen.

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