fedi_ephemerator expires old posts on a mastodon-api server.
posts the user has favourited, pinned, or bookmarked are exempt from expiry.
fedi_ephemerator source can be obtained via git:
git clone https://projects.chimerae.org/git/fedi_ephemerator
to build, run cargo build --release in the repo root.
if you need a rust build environment, rustup can help.
the finished executable will be at target/release/fedi_ephemerator.
strip it if you like!
to expire old posts made by user@instance:
fedi_ephemerator expire user@instance
on first run for a given account, this will ask for authorisation. credentials and settings are stored in a file in the directory this is run in.
once authorised, this command expires all posts older than --expire-age
(default: 30 days). this can run unattended, via cron, periodic, etc.
due to mastodon api rate limiting, the first run can take a long time to
complete, possibly even days. if your instance's rate-limiting is configured
differently from mastodon's default, you can adjust the pace with the
--api-wait, --delete-wait, and --batch-size options.
if you enjoy watching things happen, try -v!
you can also expire old posts for all known accounts:
fedi_ephemerator expire
additional information about fedi_ephemerator is available:
fedi_ephemerator help
website: https://projects.chimerae.org/fedi_ephemerator
activitypub: @ephemerator@pleroma.chimerae.org