@dcent
Transparency exercise:

right now, there are 100 accounts on gnusocial.net. 70 of them have used the service at least once within the last 6 months; 39 have done it within the last month.

We are using around 100 GB of the 160 GB disk we have. And that is more or less constant thanks to this tasks:

- Deletion of local inactive accounts after a year of no use.
- Deletion of accounts from other fediverse servers that do not exist anymore.
- Deletion of remote media every 15 days.
- Keeping the daily backups off-site.


Later today I will publish a notice detailing the costs of keeping up all the services @elbinario offers. It is not much (around 32€ monthly), but not every month is covered with donations, so the members of the collective (El Binario) need to cover the gaps from their own pocket.

Considering all this, I think one year of inactivity is more than enough time to delete a local account (note that everyone in that situation is sent a reminder in case they want to keep it. It's quite uncommon to get an answer). Besides that, unless we are talking about monsters (in more that one way) like Facebook or Instagram, it is impossible to keep all the contents for too long with a growing user base.

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