<![CDATA[Oof, need to find some way to claw back some Mastodon database space.]]>Oof, need to find some way to claw back some Mastodon database space.

Anyone aware of a script that deletes old posts from remote users with 0 local followers or similar?

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# Prune remote accounts that never interacted with local users
tootctl accounts prune

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.yttrx.com/users/waffles/statuses/116523319776325559https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.yttrx.com/users/waffles/statuses/116523319776325559Tue, 05 May 2026 18:12:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oof, need to find some way to claw back some Mastodon database space. on Sun, 03 May 2026 20:27:37 GMT]]>@cadusilva Thank you!

I had a bunch of the tootctl commands in a script that runs periodically already, but not the statuses remove one and didn't think to check the docs 😅

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gruezi.net/users/liam/statuses/116512525989929338https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gruezi.net/users/liam/statuses/116512525989929338Sun, 03 May 2026 20:27:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oof, need to find some way to claw back some Mastodon database space. on Sun, 03 May 2026 20:24:10 GMT]]>@liam here's what I use: https://codeberg.org/pnpde.social/scripts/src/branch/main/mastodon-maintenance.sh

It's really just some tootctl calls. Iow: Mastodon brings a tool for the task 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.pnpde.social/users/spielleitung/statuses/116512512472013488https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.pnpde.social/users/spielleitung/statuses/116512512472013488Sun, 03 May 2026 20:24:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Oof, need to find some way to claw back some Mastodon database space. on Sun, 03 May 2026 19:35:16 GMT]]>@liam hey, it's in portuguese but you can use a translator to understand the comments:

https://jardim.social.br/administradores/script-limpeza/

You can also search for `pg_repack` and `vacuumdb`.

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