@Real Social Networks Good thing Friendica, Hubzilla and the streams repository work so much differently.

For starters, unlike Mastodon, Pixelfed and probably others, the instance cannot force-delete your content against your will. Not your posts and not the images and other files in your file storage either. You and you alone decide what's being deleted when, if at all.

Posts and DMs from outside are being deleted after a certain period. You can shorten it for yourself. But when you have interacted with something (replied to it, liked it, starred it, repeated it, saved it in a folder), it will not be deleted.

Comments from outside are only automatically deleted along with the posts they comment on. On Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams), you are the owner of the whole thread following any of your posts, all comments included, and you decide what'll happen to the comments. If you don't delete the post or have it automatically deleted, all comments will persist along with the post unless you manually delete them independently from the post, one by one.

Unfortunately, this does not translate to Mastodon which entirely relies on downloading and caching everything. So even if you keep your posts and your pictures and everything indefinitely, Mastodon instances will eventually purge them from their caches.

Vice-versa, while Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) keep copies of posts, comments and DMs, they don't cache images and hotlink them instead. So when an image is purged from a Mastodon or Pixelfed instance, they can't show it anymore either because it's gone at the source.

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