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so the reason why @furryli.st was down earlier was that the disk was full again. why, you ask? we've accidentally been tracking ~150 million too many likes. these likes are never used for even the like-based Hot feeds algorithm, oops. πŸ˜…

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the likes affect the Hot feeds but i have figured out a way how i can cut them down by around 75%: we don't need to track likes for replies, and we know all posts that we show on the feeds, so we can figure out which to delete programmatically.