Fedinesia

⚠️ BEWARE, THIS TOOL WILL DELETE SOME OF YOUR POSTS ON THE FEDIVERSE ⚠️

Fedinesia is a command line (CLI) tool to delete old statuses from Mastodon or Pleroma instances. It respects rate limits imposed by servers.

Install and run from PyPI

It's easy to install Fedinesia from PyPI using the following command:

pip install fedinesia

Once installed, Fedinesia can be started by typing fedinesia into the command line.

Configuration / First Run

Fedinesia will ask for all necessary parameters when run for the first time and store them in a config.json file in the current directory.

Podman / Docker Container

Fedinesia can also be run using Podman or Docker as follows:

podman run \
  --env AUDIT_LOG_FILE=/logging/audit.log \
  --env PAUSE_IN_SECONDS=300 \
  --replace \
  --volume ./config:/config \
  --volume ./logging:/logging \
  --name fedinesia \
  codeberg.org/marvinsmastodontools/fedinesia

Podman / Docker Environment Variables

• PAUSE_IN_SECONDS (mandatory) This must be set to a positive integer. This value is the number of seconds to wait between successive runs of fedinesia.

• AUDIT_LOG_FILE (optional) Full path to where audit log file should be written to. It is intended that logfiles will be written to /logging directory. No audit log file will be generated / updated if this value has not been set.

• AUDIT_STYLE (optional) What style of audit log file to write. Possible options are PLAIN or CSV. Defaults to PLAIN. Has no effect if AUDIT_LOG_FILE has not been set.

• LIMIT (optional) If set to a positive integer, will make fedinesia stop processing any further deletions once this number of statuses have been deleted in the current execution.

• DRY_RUN (optional) If set to any value, e.g. DRY_RUN=true, will make fedinesia not actually delete any status. Statuses that would be deleted are shown instead.

• PROGRESS_FILE (optional) If set to a filename, will store the progress of deleted statuses to that file. This is intended to be used together with the CONTINUE_PROGRESS variable. This allows fedinesia to process a large number of status deletions over multiple executions while keeping track of progress.

• CONTINUE_PROGRESS (optional) If set to any value, e.g. CONTINUE_PROGRESS=true, will make fedinesia continue with deleting statuses from last successfully deleted status in reverse historical order. Setting this variable implies that PROGRESS_FILE has been set as well.

• LOGGING_CONFIG (optional) Can be set to a filename containing logging configuration definition. Below is a sample of the logging config file I use during development:

  [[handlers]]
  sink = "sys.stdout"
  format = "{message}"
  level = "INFO"

  [[handlers]]
  sink = "/logging/dev-fedinesia-debug.log"
  rotation = "1 day"
  retention = 3
  level = "DEBUG"
  format = "{time} - {level} - {name} - {function}({line}) - {message}"
  colorize = "none"

Licensing

Fedinesia is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

Supporting Fedinesia

There are a number of ways you can support Fedinesia:

• Create an issue with problems or ideas you have with/for Fedinesia
• Create a pull request if you are more of a hands-on person
• You can buy me a coffee
• You can send me small change in Monero to the address below:

Monero donation address

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