Thanks for posting this!
Wonder what’s going on there
Dan Carlin has a political show called Common Sense which he releases once in a blue moon. Whenever it comes out it feels like finding $200 in an old jacket pocket.
It doesn’t store media forever that is routinely cleaned and configurable in the administration settings for the instance. The content cache, which is database storage used for the text and meta-data of posts is more typically an issue over time because this requires commands to be run on the server to free up space, which many people do not do. https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/managing-mastodon-storage
I've had a small mastodon instance for over a year and recently decided to get to the bottom of why the "Explore" tab hardly ever recommended any posts.
When I was a programmer I never used ruby, but reading through the code I think it's down to a hard threshold of 5 minimum interactions for something to even be considered for the trending algorithm. This makes it hard to meet theses conditions on instances with a small number of active users.
Good ideas for something like a "10 tips" video or something to help people up their game.
Perhaps you could write up the sort of guide you are talking about so I can see what you mean? I haven't found people respond well to hitting them with much more than this upfront, and they get anxious when you don't give them some specific recommendations to get started.
I wonder if I should make a fediverse animated gif or short mp4 that can be dropped in whenever needed.
That and space, think of the cost of having an extra room in the house for all that stuff.