[immibis]

Pleroma was recommended to me as a less resource-intensive alternative to Mastodon and with less anti-features. It runs fine with one user on Hetzner's cheapest VPS.

I delete posts mirrored from other servers older than 90 days with a cron job. It has a command to do this.

[rglullis]

Pleroma and GoToSocial are indeed better if you are looking for something more efficient.

But I am still not happy with the idea that we should be deleting data from the server just to keep it manageable. It reminds of the before Gmail where people would get 5MB quota of Yahoo Mail and would have to go around deleting stuff from their mailboxes every other month.

[immibis]

Then don't, and upgrade your server by something on the order of 40GB every year.