Automatic timed toot delete

[MightyPork]

(Edited)

Add the option to automatically delete old toots.

Configurable per user and instance-wide (which is used as the default setting for users).

Sub-tasks:

• [ ] add it to permanent user settings
• [ ] add settings UI to user settings and somewhere in the admin interface
• [ ] add a rake task to wipe expired statuses and make the needed effort to federate the deletes

Implementation ideas

• Regularly fetch all users, go through their statuses and delete based on user settings
• Pinned toots might be spared so they stay in existence (after we implement pinning ;)

Also: Emojis ... :clock3:, :hourglass: 12h ... but that makes the cleaner's job harder

[coilysiren]

oh :p cite me at least

[MightyPork]

excuse me, what do you mean? @lynncyrin

[beatrix-bitrot]

lynn wrote one of these up first @MightyPork

[beatrix-bitrot]

i have no idea where it is though... sigh... memory :c

[MightyPork]

Oh? I didn't find the ticket.. There is just https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/3823

[coilysiren]

found it ~ https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1295 my commenting with the link here is enough of a link IMO bows gracefully out of this issue

[ghost]

Resurrecting this because I had the thought: If this ever gets added, the option to make it default-toggled-on for posts with media as opposed to all posts would be really really nice.

[lostinlight]

Great to see this already being discussed.

Sharing how the "expiring posts" UI looks in Hubzilla network, in case it may provide useful ideas:

[lanodan]

I think a one with a relative time might be better so it could be a preset.

And that way it could be done in the same way as pawoo (hashtag, if they still do it that way).

[kevquirk]

You could use this? https://forget.codl.fr/

[KopfKrieg]

I think a one with a relative time might be better so it could be a preset

Preset would be nice in general. I'd prefer something like 1year for all my toots for example by default.