Context: https://literature.cafe/post/987996
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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If you are the only one using it , and you don't federate with a instance like that then that its not going to happen.
~~Someone could potentially decide to post something like that in a memes community to cause trouble, which would be worrying for a self-hoster like me. My instance isn't subscribed to anything remotely sketchy, so it sounds like I'm unaffected here, but it could happen.~~
Ignore the previous, that's literally what they did. I went in and manually purged it from the command line by removing every image from the last 24 hours. For other lemmy admins wanting to do the same (assuming a standard docker setup):
sudo find /srv/lemmy/example.com/volumes/pictrs/files -type f -ctime -1 -exec shred {} \;You need to use shred instead of rm. If you use rm the data still lives on your drive until it gets overwritten
I made dedicated posts about it and corrected the mistake there, I missed this comment. Thanks for pointing it out.