So, I recently became aware of something which is kind of sad, but also not relevant in 99% of cases. A while ago we were attempting to shrink our DB size, and we tried something which deleted what, we thought, were remote posts over 1-year-old. I figured this would be fine and most likely these posts aren't being requested and likely they'd be able to be refetched. This did save us some space on the DB and seemed to work fine. However, what I am noticing now is that it did not work at all how expected. First thing's first the posts which were deleted do not seem to be able to be refetched by the instance. Next, it was not limited to remote instances. This means a few posts which were posted in The Shota House's infancy are lost and irrecoverable, atleast for The Shota House. However instances that these posts federated to still have copies of these posts and thus they are still propagating throughout the fediverse, even if we can't interact with them. Media is even backed up for instances like baest which have a media proxy enabled. So the old posts are not lost forever. Overall, this shouldn't affect most people on the instance, if it did effect you, I'm very sorry. We'll try to do better in the future. Thanks to some other instances I will be reposting some of my important old posts so that they may remain where they originated.
@disabled@shota.house all my flatty propaganda, deleted! Lost to the void! 😭 haha jk.
Supah!
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@RehnSturm256@shota.house @disabled@shota.house Not the flatty propaganda!
@hispanicweeb@bae.st @disabled@shota.house
it was for the greater good…to make room for ever-expanding mommy milkers in the Shota House. Lol
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@RehnSturm256@shota.house @disabled@shota.house Well, if it makes my shotabros happy, then I'm okay with it
@RehnSturm256@shota.house @hispanicweeb@bae.st We have a super old version of the DB (from July 10th) but too much has happened since then. I would rather keep the new posts that have been added than go back to July 10th's posts and keep a few months of posts which are over a year old. lol. I did try restoring it super briefly to try and fix something (some old statuses are still technically pinned even if we can't see them. Seems to mostly effect me. lol) In the end we learn from our mistakes, we will try to do better.
@disabled@shota.house @hispanicweeb@bae.st no it’s all good. With as much as I post done days I’m sure I contributed to the BLOAT
i have backups of my photos anyway, and old threads from that far back don’t have to stick around.
@RehnSturm256@shota.house @hispanicweeb@bae.st You likely didn't contribute to much of the bloat. In reality, the bloat was likely caused by federation of posts older than the Shota House instance itself due to settings I originally had. These settings are good for a new instance to get federated, but not so good later on, lol. Basically a bunch of junk remote content. Which was the original plan of what to purge, we didn't expect it would effect local posts.