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   Mike Johnston (thamunsta@mastodon.nervesocket.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 09:59:59 JST Mike Johnston

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   @BeAware I wish there were better tools for cleaning remote data. Inactive remote accounts. Instances where there are no follow[s|ers]. Instances with dead DNS entries, expired SSL certs, 5xx errors... I did a HUGE purge today and it was hard to know what I should delete without accidentally nuking the needles amongst the haystacks - so to speak...

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     Mike Johnston (thamunsta@mastodon.nervesocket.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 10:56:25 JST Mike Johnston

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     @BeAware yeah I only keep 30 days media retention. If I want to see an image or video beyond that I'll just go to the remote instance 😂 it's so much data
     Today I cleared out about 200k posts though. Freed up ~5gb of database after doing a VACUUM. Probably not worth the effort but it was a fun experiment

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     Mike Johnston (thamunsta@mastodon.nervesocket.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 11:44:43 JST Mike Johnston

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     @BeAware ya that's all posts which is what I mean that it's too bad we don't have more "surgical" means of deleting. I'd probably prefer if I didn't delete posts I favorite for example. At any rate yeah in the next few days you should see tons of space restored 💪