Bonus points if she’s both lol

Yeah, I’ve heard of people using cron jobs to automatically clean activity older than 3 days.

I’m not sure what can be done about image staking up a lot of space, I imagine that’ll take up a ton of space after a while. Not sure how that could be cleaned up safely.

I wanna look into self-hosting my own Lemmy instance some time. Once I have more time to figure it out with my home network local server w/ public cloud VPS OpenVPN server setup (likely with Docker containers too) I’ll take a look into it. You’re right, it’ll likely be fun and right up my alley too.

Ooh, that’s a really good idea, I need a federation helper bot/account when I start self-hosting a Lemmy instance!

It is? TIL, that’s pretty interesting.

Awesome, that was just as straightforward as I was hoping it was, thanks! I am more familiar with MySQL as I haven’t used Postgres a ton but SQL is SQL after all lol

Could you share the cron/script you use to do this? I’m interested in hosting my own Lemmy at some point, and having a script for that cleanup would be hugely helpful for me.

I feel like self-hosting is genuinely the best option regardless. That way you have full control and you can ensure your wiki never goes down.

Wow, I’ll definitely look into this, thanks! Even if I don’t use it, it still may be useful just reading through it.

Yep, making federation decisions myself is why I want to spin up my own instance at some point, and I have spare computing resources as is already lol

I’m a PHP developer, I prefer PHP but I’m probably going to be going with Lemmy since it’s more refined currently.

Yes, the Fediverse is actually awesome. It’s decentralized, there’s so many open-source implementations, etc etc. The Fediverse is what Zuckerberg wishes the Metaverse could be.

Oof, yeah, requiring someone to use Arch definitely seems like a steep requirement lol

I’d maybe be interested in trying out self-hosting Mastodon at some point too, good to hear that Lemmy was easy to install though. I’m not too worried since I have quite a bit of Linux experience, I figure it probably won’t be too bad to setup whatever social media instances I’m interested in checking out.

As someone who likes having control over their data and especially backups, and someone who normally enjoys self-hosting things, I honestly might do it. I’m not sure if I’d want to host a lemmy instance or kbin instance though, since I know they all federate together anyway. I may also end up waiting until the software is more mature too before looking into it.