Unfortunately, some people have decided to post CSAM on remote instances. The moderators of the communities have been very proactive, but because of the federated nature of Lemmy, it means the material had federated.

So like most instances are doing, we’ve initiated a purge on the pictrs database/filesystem to delete ALL images from the last 24 hours.

Images may appear broken. I’d like to apologise for the inconvenience, but as Lodion said best on his post in !meta@aussie.zone - “… this is pretty much the nightmare scenario for an instance. I’d rather nuke all images ever than to host such content.”

It’s pretty disgusting.

For fellow Lemmy admins who are curious, the script to delete is:

sudo find /srv/lemmy/example.com/volumes/pictrs/files -type f -ctime -1 -exec shred {} \;

Be sure to modify the path to point to your pictrs directory!