Just set up a cronjob to automatically delete remote assets more than 7 days old on this instance!
Feels silly, "cron" was just a thing I knew about and was kind of scared to set it up because of the effort it takes to learn something new. Turns out it was super easy to run a daily process!
@thomasorus Ah, "remote assets" refer to images from external instances hosted on our instance. No one's assets on Merveilles are being deleted!
We need to remove remotes every once in a while because it takes up a LOT of space if we just host everything from everywhere forever. Federation is… weird. X3
@somnius oooh i see ! And yes cron tasks look frightening until you do one and realize it’s just editing a text file.
@somnius Pro tip: every time the job runs it'll generate an email using the server's default mail transfer agent. I usually set up jobs with the "cronic" package so that they only email on failure. You can also send the output to a log file, which can be easier to manage.
@ndpi Oh cheers, thanks for the tip!!
@somnius huu what are remote assets? I hope it’s not all the images people are posting?