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A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
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Leaving, exiting, disconnect from a Pub #1336

Closed thebalaa closed 3 years ago

thebalaa commented 3 years ago

I joined a pub and would like to disconnect from it and flush the associated content it sent me. Is this possible via the current patchwork UI?

Thanks!

black-puppydog commented 3 years ago

Hi @thebalaa, if i understand correctly you want to not receive updates from that pub any longer, and delete the content that you would not have synced if you never followed it?

short answer: no we don't have that, and it's unlikely to be added.

long answer: I don't think we have a way of doing this, and it would be complicated to build. Mostly because patchwork is built around flumedb, which is an append-only log file. So deleting stuff from that file, while possible, breaks things in complicated ways. We have a mechanism to zero out content from blocked feeds. So you don't save space in that case, but you don't host that content anymore. But building this logic of "would I have synced this if I wasn't following the pub?" is quite involved. What people usually do is just to unfollow the pub, and from that moment on it will not affect your replication decisions anymore. The content you synced is likely not the bulk of your ssb data anyhow, that's mostly gonna be blobs.