• kev@lemmy.kevhomeit.trade
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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.

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      What happens if someone decides to subscribe to a seemingly innocent community that later becomes a target for such content to be posted? Because that’s precisely what happened here.

      I mean this very kindly, but seeing that you seem to operate your own instance this very serious misunderstanding of the risks involved with hosting a lemmy instance has me deeply concerned.

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        Who is that someone? The only one in my instance its me and no one else. My instance only download what its post , commented and upvoted on the instances I subscribed. My instance does not download what others are subscribed on other instances. For example if I am only subscribed to the Lemmy.ml instance I only get what others post on that instance , and if a user from lemmy.ml instance subscribe to a nefarious instance doesn’t mean my instance will get all those nefarious post because I am not federated with that nefarious instance.

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          But that’s not how these things always work. People will post offending content in seemingly innocuous communities to cause as much destruction as possible.

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            I understand now I apologized for my previous stupid comments. I was not subscribed to the community that posted that so I think I am good. I am sorry again , I spoke out of ignorance didn’t know what had happened.

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      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 {} \;

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        Thanks, haven’t been on my instance for a few weeks and I come back to this shit show. Bye bye memes of the last two (just to be sure) days. I wonder how I can even prevent that shit from happening again.

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        You need to use shred instead of rm. If you use rm the data still lives on your drive until it gets overwritten

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          I made dedicated posts about it and corrected the mistake there, I missed this comment. Thanks for pointing it out.