<![CDATA[Pruning of dead inboxes - OK?]]>Is it OK to prune dead inboxes (target nodes for delivery) after grace period of e.g. 7 days when transport failures (timeout, SSL, DNS, redirect loop, unresolvable host), 400, 404, 410, all 5xx occur repeatedly)?

My bots get followed by different users/nodes, but some start to show as unavailable causing my server to send requests that either hang or come back as 404s or 50Xs.

]]>https://fedi.wiki/topic/6e611125-2238-40ce-9aed-28ce46decc14/pruning-of-dead-inboxes-okRSS for NodeTue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:16 GMTMon, 24 Aug 2026 14:17:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Pruning of dead inboxes - OK? on Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:55:09 GMT]]>Yes, this is normal and good.

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12640767https://fedi.wiki/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12640767Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:55:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pruning of dead inboxes - OK? on Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:23:28 GMT]]>Actually, I forgot that posts from Mastodon get here, so please use this:
https://activitypub.space/topic/548/activitypub-question-is-it-ok-to-run-pruning-of-dead-inboxes-target-nodes-for-delivery-after-grace-period-of-e.g.-7-days-when-transport-failures-timeout-ssl-dns-redirect-loop-unresolvable-host-400-404-410-all-5xx-occur-repeatedly

]]>https://fedi.wiki/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2385https://fedi.wiki/post/https://activitypub.space/post/2385Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:23:28 GMT