diff --git a/.env.production.sample b/.env.production.sample
index 03b2dd4739..a513322cab 100644
--- a/.env.production.sample
+++ b/.env.production.sample
@@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ MAX_REMOTE_EMOJI_SIZE=204800
 # Time unit in seconds
 IP_RETENTION_PERIOD=31556952
 
+# Session retention period
+# The termination of (web) sessions older than a year is done alongside the ip cleanup in vanilla Mastodon.
+# Therefore, to prevent sessions from being destroyed alongside IP addresses, this separate period exists.
+# Its default value of 31556952 (1 year) is derived from the previous hardcoded value of IP_RETENTION_PERIOD.
+SESSION_RETENTION_PERIOD=31556952
+
 # Optional hCaptcha support
 # HCAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY=
 # HCAPTCHA_SITE_KEY=
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 516cb4dee1..9cb5bb3de2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ This Mastodon fork is based on the [glitch-soc Fork of Mastodon](https://github.
   You might want to revert these to the upstream files (or your own versions!) if you decide to use this fork for your own instance.
 - The web frontend emoji picker is a blobcat instead of the joy emoji.
 - Editing posts is enabled in the web frontend (thanks, meave [for the hint](https://toot.site/@meave/108515761669028663)).
-- The duration of retention of IP addresses was made configurable. Unfortunately, the retention of IP addresses is currently coupled to the lifetime of sessions. Decoupling this is currently being worked on.
+- The period of retention of IP addresses was made configurable.
+- The period of retention of sessions was made configurable.
diff --git a/app/workers/scheduler/ip_cleanup_scheduler.rb b/app/workers/scheduler/ip_cleanup_scheduler.rb
index 0787dd2c59..8f607db037 100644
--- a/app/workers/scheduler/ip_cleanup_scheduler.rb
+++ b/app/workers/scheduler/ip_cleanup_scheduler.rb
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ class Scheduler::IpCleanupScheduler
   include Sidekiq::Worker
 
   IP_RETENTION_PERIOD = ENV.fetch('IP_RETENTION_PERIOD', 1.year).to_i.seconds.freeze
+  SESSION_RETENTION_PERIOD = ENV.fetch('SESSION_RETENTION_PERIOD', 1.year).to_i.seconds.freeze
 
   sidekiq_options retry: 0
 
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ class Scheduler::IpCleanupScheduler
   private
 
   def clean_ip_columns!
+    SessionActivation.where('updated_at < ?', SESSION_RETENTION_PERIOD.ago).in_batches.destroy_all
     SessionActivation.where('updated_at < ?', IP_RETENTION_PERIOD.ago).in_batches.update_all(ip: nil)
     User.where('current_sign_in_at < ?', IP_RETENTION_PERIOD.ago).in_batches.update_all(sign_up_ip: nil)
     LoginActivity.where('created_at < ?', IP_RETENTION_PERIOD.ago).in_batches.destroy_all