• PenguinCoder@beehaw.org
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      8 months ago

      That query by itself in a vacuum is fine. Combined with many other triggers on the DB, and then federating that out before actually deleting from the local DB… well that is what creates all sorts of headaches.

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          8 months ago

          Images aren’t federated through ActivityPub so I don’t really see how deleting media is supposed to work.

          Yes, they are. Every instance downloads everyone’s images for a “cached” version that is currently never used. This is what makes this problem especially insidious and straight up dangerous in cases like CSAM.