Server space is getting crowded, so I'll be deleting a lot of communities that have tons of posts, but very little followers.
And when I say tons of posts, I mean about 660.000 - a little under 10% of the total Lemmit posts.
To put it into perspective - the next biggest Lemmy instance, LemmyWorld, has about 550k posts. I'll be deleting more posts than they have in total. Talk about a hobby getting out of hand...
Since the Lemmy server model was never designed for this use case (rightfully so), and I'm running this on a teensieweensie server - this is asking a lot of the database. Therefor the site will be blocked from regular traffic to lessen the load. Expect this maintenance time to last through the weekend, maybe longer.
And we're back up. In the end cleaned up near 1 million posts - there might be some cleanup to do in the near future, since there are a lot of dead accounts and disconnected instances, so the bot is spending a lot of time and resources on content that nobody is consuming.