Imdat Celeste • NaG • NaB on Nostr: npub1cmgqv…wrzd2 I actually very much dislike what masto.host is writing there. The ...
npub1cmgqvz7xr07euwkum3mjghjqcu4d3k2fcyf6g4uwwe5ggnd6fetq0wrzd2 (npub1cmg…rzd2) I actually very much dislike what masto.host is writing there. The content retention cache policy is important for being a good citizen on Fedi.
A lot of users set an auto-deletion of their posts. E.g., "Auto-delete after 60 days". Then, their posts older than that are automatically deleted from their servers.
On remote servers which have fetched these posts, the posts would then disappear at latest this deletion date + the content caching policy set there.
If you leave that field blank on your server, you are actually saying: "I don't give a damn about what the original poster wanted, I am keeping their post forever."
This, for me, is being a not-so-good citizen of Fedi. If the post was deleted on your server after content retention cache time, it will be automatically re-fetched. If it was also deleted on the originating server, there was a reason for it and that reason should be respected.
I do NOT WANT the posts of my users to be kept longer than what they configured in their settings. I'd find this behavior ... not good.
And yes, there are many rules (also called "compromises") that we have to follow if we live in a community - and some of them I really don't like. But I have a choice: I either accept those rules, work with the others to change them, or leave the community. Because if one person starts breaking one of the rules, what stops others ignoring them all?
Just my EUR 0.0002
A lot of users set an auto-deletion of their posts. E.g., "Auto-delete after 60 days". Then, their posts older than that are automatically deleted from their servers.
On remote servers which have fetched these posts, the posts would then disappear at latest this deletion date + the content caching policy set there.
If you leave that field blank on your server, you are actually saying: "I don't give a damn about what the original poster wanted, I am keeping their post forever."
This, for me, is being a not-so-good citizen of Fedi. If the post was deleted on your server after content retention cache time, it will be automatically re-fetched. If it was also deleted on the originating server, there was a reason for it and that reason should be respected.
I do NOT WANT the posts of my users to be kept longer than what they configured in their settings. I'd find this behavior ... not good.
And yes, there are many rules (also called "compromises") that we have to follow if we live in a community - and some of them I really don't like. But I have a choice: I either accept those rules, work with the others to change them, or leave the community. Because if one person starts breaking one of the rules, what stops others ignoring them all?
Just my EUR 0.0002