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What does "Posts older than 365 days will be removed." mean exactly? (piefed.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[-] python@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

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 3 weeks 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.

this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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