Lemmy's Image Problem
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The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.

Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.

  • Mactan@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    tbh I just assume that despite GDPR or CCPA any images I put up are there forever, it’s not like the tech is that different in the fediverse from anywhere else. nowhere is going to be scrubbing their storage drive blocks on delete if it even can be deleted

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I take it you’ve never run a community instance. The problem is, laws vary by jurisdiction, and can have a very real effect on how you run your server when shit hits the fan.

      We recently ran a story about a guy building his own Fediverse community and platform, who just happened to be a bit naive about the network. He’s off in his corner, doing his own thing, people find his project and assume it’s some kind of weird scraper. After disinformation came out about it, someone remote-loaded child pornography to his server, for the purpose of filling a report with the police.

      The guy is based on Germany. Local jurisdiction requires one year of prison time minimum. It matters.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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        8 months ago

        This shit is exactly why I don’t understand why the default is to cache every image locally. If you’re building a scraper for local use I can sort of understand, but this is such an easy feature to abuse.