Automatic deletion of old posts (cleanup)

[Inrumpo]

The problem

Short news services are characterized by their timeliness and the (often) short-lived nature of posts.
For various reasons, as a user, I may not want my old post to be available anymore. An automated deletion (cleanup) feature would – to a degree – solve this.

Describe the solution you'd like
Allow the user to automatically delete his/her own posts and/or replies older than x days, y months or z years.
Mastodon does this pretty well while even allowing for some more advanced parameters.

Alternatives I've considered

Deleting posts manually also solves this problem, but is tedious.

[SaySayTakamura]

If you allow me to comment, would not be a good measure to keep those posts stored (Of course, not available to anyone) somewhere?

Your idea is great (and useful) but some pretty nasty people could take advantage of it.

This, speaking as an user too.

[ghost]

Felicitas Pojtinger made this as a 3rd party app,but id love it to get first party support as well,

posting link to help people [until this hopefully happens]
https://bsky.app/profile/felicitas.pojtinger.com/post/3kau6yt5cux2v

[Inrumpo]

To add to the discussion:

As far as I'm informed, deleting posts on Bluesky doesn’t remove them from the public internet even if no one has screenshotted or archived them, since both the create and delete messages for the deleted posts still exist. [Source]

Therefore deleting is not a foolproof way of erasing ones skeets. Still, the requested feature is better than nothing.

[ghost]

this is how it looks on mastodon

[pfrazee]

To add to the discussion:

As far as I'm informed, deleting posts on Bluesky doesn’t remove them from the public internet even if no one has screenshotted or archived them, since both the create and delete messages for the deleted posts still exist. [Source]

Therefore deleting is not a foolproof way of erasing ones skeets. Still, the requested feature is better than nothing.

AFAIK the firehose will emit the events when they happen and then retain the data for some period, but will drop the data at some point after the deletion (I dont know the exact SLA but we try to make it relatively fast). The posts are certainly out there since any listener will grab them, but the infrastructure will make efforts to stop carrying them.

[surfdude29]

Felicitas Pojtinger made this as a 3rd party app,but id love it to get first party support as well,

posting link to help people [until this hopefully happens] https://bsky.app/profile/felicitas.pojtinger.com/post/3kau6yt5cux2v

FYI as well as the SkySweeper tool by Felicitas Pojtinger mentioned above, @ericvolp12 has written a Profile Cleaner tool available here:

https://bsky.jazco.dev/cleanup