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Federated posts I like or repost are vanishing after two weeks (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Sigma-Alpha_2@alien.top to c/mastodon

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Is this a normal thing to happen? I enjoy looking back at the posts I've liked in the past, but have noticed that while posts from users on our instance last forever, federated posts vanish after two weeks. I asked the admin and they weren't familiar with the issue, and I haven't seen any documentation discussing it. Is this a common thing, or should I switch instances?

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[–] JustDalek_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What instance are you on?

This behavior is if your admin configured your " Content cache retention period " to have ANY value. If this is configured, remote posts will delete after the specified amount of days.

If they are a newer server host, they may have configured this without fully understanding what this is. I did the same when I first started tbh, but if this isnt configured... hmm..

Depends if they self host or cloud host, maybe their host could be doing it? depends

https://preview.redd.it/k5kuliuywuxb1.png?width=1163&format=png&auto=webp&s=d317267dec4e0d9dfbb718c3c80065ef69fd6ba7

[–] the68thdimension@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The other option is that these accounts all just happen to have set automated post deletion themselves.

https://preview.redd.it/0i95h3s1rwxb1.png?width=2366&format=png&auto=webp&s=92f8eaeedb9a51d064071bf54e7471f59a84c322

[–] Sigma-Alpha_2@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

mastodon.gamedev.place. Is there any way for a user to see that value?