It was removed deliberately during the reddit exodus in order to direct new Lemmy users elsewhere. Rather than to overload lemmy.ml further.

The kiwi’s have spun something up over here

Good bot.

The largest table holds data that is only needed by Lemmy briefly. There is a scheduled job to clear it… Every 6 months. There are active discussions on how best to handle this.

On my instance I’ve set a cronjob to delete everything but the most recent 100k rows of that table every hour.

I’m using S3FS to achieve the same thing, but without modifying the ansible config or using native object storage within pict-rs.

I like their sense of humour. The definitely don’t take themselves too seriously.

That about covers it. If all those were to occur, I’d go back. But realistically, none of them will happen.