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Running tootctl accounts cull on 400k accounts takes around 8 hours.

Remove remote accounts that no longer exist. Queries every single remote account in the database to determine if it still exists on the origin server, and if it doesn’t, then remove it from the database. Accounts that have had confirmed activity within the last week are excluded from the checks, in case the server is just down.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#accounts-cull

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in reply to Jan

After 8 hours the script removed 2317 accounts and 2565 domains were not available during the check.
in reply to Jan

Hmm; should moderate-scale administrators do this too?
in reply to Alan Sill

@AlanSill I think it is worth for older instances that are running since a couple of years.

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