https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#self-destruct

Starting with version 4.3.0-beta.1, tootctl self-destruct command no longer directly deletes an account. Instead, it provides an environment variable value that can be set by the user.

--dry-run argument has also been removed because nothing happens until the user manually edits the .env.production file to save the values of those environment variables and restarts all mastodon processes.

The description of the command should be modified to say that it can determine the value of the environment variable to set if self destruct is not in progress, and then display the number of accounts waiting to be deleted if self destruct is in progress.