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Don’t know but it would be a good idea to ask your instance admin if you’re worried about it. They’re the ones that foot the bill for the server and it’s storage and the ones that would be doing the deleting whether using this tool or not.
Don’t know but it would be a good idea to ask your instance admin if you’re worried about it. They’re the ones that foot the bill for the server and it’s storage and the ones that would be doing the deleting whether using this tool or not.
Does that permanently delete posts? Why would you do that?
Reduce the footprint of the install. Text posts and comments are negligible but pictures chew through storage.
Well don’t buy old enterprise hardware then, that’s the noisy stuff. 1tb isn’t a lot by modern storage standards, however if you managed to fill it up with notes and books I would be impressed. Games are another matter though. You could fit thousands of emulated games from the 80s and 90s or like 7 from the last few years, it depends.
I’d say through throw Truenas Scale or Ubuntu server on it and try and come up for uses for it. If it doesn’t seem useful after a month or 2 then shut it down nothing lost. The only real danger is that it’s a gateway drug and before you know it your thinking about upgrading to a 48u rack to put your pile of networking equipment and servers and your basement sounds like a jet engine.
Then Firefox decides that it’s absolutely necessary that updates get applied this second and refuses to do anything until you restart it.
Just to give some context, I have a one user instance running on a very lightweight Debian container containing only lemmy. After the 2 weeks I’ve had it up it’s at 6gb storage used. No clue how it would scale with more users federating with more communities but I could see it getting pretty big pretty fast.