Interesting, when I tried a while back it broke all images (not visible on the website due to service worker caching but visible if you put any pictrs url into postman or something)
I think deleting images from the pictrs storage can corrupt the pictrs sled db so I would not advise it, you should go via the purge endpoint on the pictrs API.
I don't know about lemmy.world but I assume they "purged" the user instead of banning them (or at least that's what I did for my instance). Purging wipes all of their data from your instance and exists as a feature basically for this reason. That means that the user wouldn't have a visible account to ban anymore because it literally removes them from the database.
Only way to be sure that your server doesn't have any of their content on it.
$17.50 for 250g of single origin, high Q-score coffee is not unreasonable. You'll see some single origins at Flight Coffee go for $23 for 250g or so, and obviously very high Q-score coffee goes for significantly more. I don't usually buy 1kg lots of coffee due to freshness concerns.
Hummingbird claims to source speciality grade coffee but I have seen so many defects (both roast defects and defects in the green) when buying from them that I kind of don't believe them (or they're getting ripped off by their suppliers). You still can make tasty coffee with Hummingbird but I think the quality of raw ingredients and the skill of the people who roast the coffee is lower than basically all of the other roasters that are targeting the speciality NZ market (as opposed to the commodity coffee market).
Yeah, I have been attempting to avoid defederating with instances from mine but with HexBear I just kind of had to because they were taking over every popular post.
Edit: I did read OP's initial exchange and I think OP massively overreacted and the HexBear commenters were largely fine. However, the wider issue still stands which is why I did in my case.
True, you're correct. I'm just not sure how you did it without corrupting the sled db. Maybe I'm just unlucky