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Wait, nothing lasts here on lemmy for more than 6 months!? I swear Iβve seen much older stuff here?
The person you replied to is wrong. That 6 months has nothing to do with removing old comments or postings.
Cool! Whatβs the 6 months thing about then?
The programmers were using it to debug things. Right now it's just doubling the storage ;)
Someone asked the developers 5 days ago about it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3103
Pretty sure OP-comment misinterpreted the code. My best guess is that they're simply pruning an index or something like that.