@ryangadams I can hear his sharp intake of breath from here
@ohpleaseno he’s actually not too bad, bit of a softy really, and very timid. But I think of him as spiky because his fur is a bit rough compared to his twin sister. She would claw/bite you immediately if you try to lift her up though!
@lexfri too soon to say Poland?
@SilverGorilla2 I was lucky. These lovely people bought me a drink. 🙂
@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.
@iain @Coifsh @theronster meh. This is open source man. You can do what you like man.
@Coifsh @iain @theronster that’s probably an app and convention limitation. I can’t think of a good reason why an app can’t unify the local timelines from multiple logged in accounts. Would just need someone to actually make it…
@theronster @Coifsh @iain is there anything to stop you creating an account on another instance for which you want to view the local timeline?
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.
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