Hi all, I’m a Lemmy FOSS app contributor that’s made a couple of tools for people starting small instances including Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) for building content on new server’s All Feeds and Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) for clearing old posts on smaller instances.

Today I’m releasing Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS). When launching a new Lemmy instance, administrators may not understand the necessity of defederation with problem instances. Using LDS, you can sync your instance’s “blocked instance” list with that of another server(s) whose admins you trust.

  • teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu
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    1 year ago

    Does that permanently delete posts? Why would you do that?

    Reduce the footprint of the install. Text posts and comments are negligible but pictures chew through storage.

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      1 year ago

      And does this only delete visual media by default? If not, this is worse than anything reddit has done ever. I frequently save posts and links to myself in the form of links, for later processing. This would mean that by the time I get to it (can easily be years, honestly), it will have disappeared forever.

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        1 year ago

        It doesn’t delete anything that anyone on the instance upvotes, downvotes, comments on, saves, etc. Its mainly a tool for personal instances.

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        1 year ago

        Not everyone who participates with their own instance can afford storage. Some users might have bandwidth restrictions. It’s the Fediverse. Wild, unpredictable and anyone can participate.

        • Always document things you want to keep, never rely on someone else to do it for you.