You can also remove specific remote communities, which bans them from your site instead of the entire remote instance. Make sure to use remove, not purge.
The community will not appear in the list nor be searchable.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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Ah - cool. I wondered at the difference there. So removing them bans that community, whereas purge just erases them from local cache/storage?
Purge deletes everything, including the fact that you've deleted them and they become searchable again. It's like a complete reset. Even the act of removing them is reset
You can purge, and then bring it up again and then remove if you want to delete any cached media or posts.
Gotcha - thanks for that. This is going to be a potential pitfall for the uninitiated. I can see inexperienced admins easily allowing others to store all manner of bad shit on their servers without realising.
Yes. That said, media uploaded by remote users is actually stored on the remote instance, not yours.
Ah, even better. Thanks.
But arenβt thumbnails local?
I just checked and even thumbnails are remote.
Whatever that was, it's not loading.
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Supposed to be a gif, guess it didn't load proper so I edited to make it the still image meme
Lol - that's exactly what I'm worried about! π€£
Seems to me if you're good with Postgres you can do whatever you want.
... Oh, this isn't a helpful answer.
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