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What does "Posts older than 365 days will be removed." mean exactly? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by arsCynic@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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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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[–] alb@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can moderators/admins control the time period before threads/posts are deleted?
I've been nursing the idea of a gimmicky instance with ephemeral threads but I've been thinking more 1-2 weeks rather than a year.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes it can be set to anything from 1 week to 10 years.

It's set by the admin but moderators should have a good enough relationship with them to be able to ask for it to be set to something that suits their needs.

[–] alb@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

This is great, I was afraid I'd have to employ some sort of moderator bots to do it.
Thanks.

[–] python@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's pretty cool! Can it be set to retain more "popular" posts for longer? :o Because there's a lot of communities where it makes sense to not keep the average post around for too long (like casual chatting/news communities) but sometimes a really good post comes up (like a cool guide or discussion) that would absolutely be worth keeping for longer. Usually upvotes/comments are a pretty good indicator of that

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

That's a good idea but currently we don't have that level of granularity.

When I made it I assumed that most communities would be 'forever' and the auto-deletion would only be used on communities that the admin really didn't consider worth having in the first place. I don't know if that's how it has turned out in practice, 2 years later.