Mo @mo@nitech.online

@Septicpeg@mastodon.ie yeeeeeoooooooo

@lexfri too soon to say Poland?

@Septicpeg@mastodon.ie and I bet they’re microscopic in size too.

@SilverGorilla2 I was lucky. These lovely people bought me a drink. 🙂

I hate* to be a stereotype but I just spent the afternoon in the pub talking shit with a couple I’d never met before and we’re like best mates now. I’d die for Gerry and Margaret.

(* I’m lying. I’m totally embracing this stereotype)

@seanddotmedotuk @LeifB73 that ship has sailed. You can’t get it back now. You might be able to GDPR some of it out of existence, but then your GDPR request will be recorded for posterity.

@seanddotmedotuk @LeifB73 it’s a bit like that, but there are several large cabinets with tape reels on them and they all move along at the same speed. They start up, spin fast, then slow down, and start again, repeating the process, while lights flash.

@LeifB73 I haven’t looked in depth but there may be something built into Mastodon to allow purging of old data. I administer nitech.social and there are definitely options for removing cached media from other instances. So if you post an image, my instance will get a copy of it for a while, but it can be cleared. Then if I view your post again, the image would be refetched.

@marramgrass @theronster Narrator: through no fault of his own, he missed it.

I need an app or service that can remember the name of that movie that I saw advertised on the side of a bus around 6 months ago when it was in cinemas but is now available on iTunes and I’m in the mood to watch it right now but only if it’s not too long because I’m a bit sleepy this evening thank you very much.

Is it too much to ask for this simple use case?

@LeifB73 probably not. You might save a little space in a database if the post is genuinely deleted, but many systems will “soft-delete” where a piece of data is marked as deleted so that it won’t appear in searches and lists, but is still there for record keeping.

Additionally, deleting old posts will just generate more work for a server to do, and if that deletion gets propagated to your followers then it could create more work on multiple instances.

@noodles I decided to check, and The Cure are on the Friday night. Was starting to get jittery and considering just going for E6

@oisin also, you need to change instance and stop giving out 😜

@oisin maybe it was a Twitterrific thing, but I’d been using that aggressively for years with Twitter. I like the time-bounded mutes here. Great for when some people get very active and over dominate my timeline.

@noodles you might be right, but I don’t think I could do two nights in a row, and Glen Hansard on the 6th. And maybe Paddy Kielty on the 4th

@noodles no, I’m at The Cure that night. Gutted to miss E6, but excited to see The Cure!