Please elaborate!

Is that an option to activate in communities which don't care for long time archival of posts or is that thing instance-wide?

@rimu@piefed.social
@wjs018@piefed.social

wait what?

Some written example would be appreciated.

I believe piefed instances will keep the remote posts within their database for a set amount of days however the post titles will stick around and one can manually fetch the entire posts if they want to see more of them later on.

Like if I see an expired post on piefed.social hosted on Lemmy.world I can see still the title however I will be required to load the rest to view the entirety of it as in the body and comments.

The posts remain fully up on the instances they were posted on IIRC.

I am too old to get the meme...but this would be in reference to the fact that piefed admins can configure content to be deleted from their instance after a set amount of time has elapsed. This is done manually on a per-community basis. For an example, if you look at the sidebar of !anime@ani.social, it is set to have content removed from piefed.social after 1 year. The retention policy for a community is displayed in the sidebar just below the list of moderators.

I though that there were Lemmy spaces that do it too, but likely they use a bot to accomplish that. For it to be baked right into the PieFed code, and displayed in a consistent manner, I think is wonderfully transparent.

I... Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing