I wonder what the stats on running a lemmy instance are.

How much time needs to be invested, how much data storage is needed, what kind of traffic volume is to be expected?

    • RoundSparrow@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy will clean up posts older than six months.

      That’s a wrong interpretation of that code. There is a table call ‘activity’ that is a debug log. It does not clear comments and postings to truncate that table at 6 months. The app doesn’t read from that table, it only writes to it.

    • maegul@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Wait, nothing lasts here on lemmy for more than 6 months!? I swear I’ve seen much older stuff here?

      • RoundSparrow@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The person you replied to is wrong. That 6 months has nothing to do with removing old comments or postings.

      • Kresten@feddit.dkEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Pretty sure OP-comment misinterpreted the code. My best guess is that they’re simply pruning an index or something like that.