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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by admin@lemmit.online to c/about@lemmit.online

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.

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[-] admin@lemmit.online 1 points 9 months ago

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.

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