Is this a normal thing to happen? I enjoy looking back at the posts I’ve liked in the past, but have noticed that while posts from users on our instance last forever, federated posts vanish after two weeks. I asked the admin and they weren’t familiar with the issue, and I haven’t seen any documentation discussing it. Is this a common thing, or should I switch instances?
What instance are you on?
This behavior is if your admin configured your " Content cache retention period " to have ANY value. If this is configured, remote posts will delete after the specified amount of days.
If they are a newer server host, they may have configured this without fully understanding what this is. I did the same when I first started tbh, but if this isnt configured… hmm…
Depends if they self host or cloud host, maybe their host could be doing it? depends
https://preview.redd.it/k5kuliuywuxb1.png?width=1163&format=png&auto=webp&s=d317267dec4e0d9dfbb718c3c80065ef69fd6ba7
The other option is that these accounts all just happen to have set automated post deletion themselves.
https://preview.redd.it/0i95h3s1rwxb1.png?width=2366&format=png&auto=webp&s=92f8eaeedb9a51d064071bf54e7471f59a84c322
mastodon.gamedev.place. Is there any way for a user to see that value?