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

submitted 13 hours ago by arsCynic@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 26 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Are you sure this isn't a piefed thing?

Either way it's an incredibly bad idea, lots of old posts being indexed by search engines will help Lemmy grow. The one thing Reddit has is over a decade of archived posts that answer even the stupidest question.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 4 hours ago

It really depends on the community. If the community is mostly discussion based help, it's a bad thing to delete it.

If it's a community of spongebob memes, it's less of an issue to delete old posts.

[-] arsCynic@piefed.social 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

PieFed dev Rimu answered at https://piefed.social/comment/12376368:

The posts in that community will be deleted after that many days. For remote communities this only affects the local copy of each post and the post will still exist on the source instance and other instances (unless they too delete their copies). For local communities the deletion federates so the post is removed everywhere.

PieFed is intended to run for decades and storage costs money so admins can set how long they want to retain content for, on a per-community basis. It’s up to them to decide what is worth keeping forever and what should be trimmed.

AFAIK piefed.social has ‘forever’ for the retention of all local communities and only trims remote communities. In some communities piefed.social only keeps posts for very short periods, like 28 days, because it’s the kind of content people look at once and has no lasting value beyond that.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

In some communities piefed.social only keeps posts for very short periods, like 28 days, because it’s the kind of content people look at once and has no lasting value beyond that.

IMO that's not for admins or mods to decide. That's for users and (eventually) historians et al. to decide, and it's only knowable in retrospect, if ever.

Hell, most of archaeology is digging through literal trash.

[-] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 9 points 7 hours ago

Nope, the one who pays the bills decides. If you disagree that's fine. You are free to host your own instance, where the users can decide how much space they want to take up for saving old pictures.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

They can decide if they want to pay for it, but they can't decide whether other people think it has value or not.

[-] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

Ah gotcha, now I understand what you mean exactly and I agree.

[-] arsCynic@piefed.social 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The one thing Reddit has is over a decade of archived posts that answer even the stupidest question.

Exactly, which is what I want to see with the Fediverse. Could be a PieFed thing yes.

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