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PSA: you can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude. That would be bad ๐ฑ
(tech.michaelaltfield.net)
This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs.
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| Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story) |
This is (also) a horror story about accidentally uploading very sensitive data to Lemmy, and the (surprisingly) difficult task of deleting it.
Hi, unfortunate author here ๐
The issue happened in Jerboa. I opened a few tickets in the Jerboa app's GitHub to address this:
Can you please tell us which Lemmy client apps you use that store the delete token and have a UI to delete uploaded images?
Boost does, under settings, general, uploaded images. Here is mine:
I can delete them there (or forfeit the ability to do so)
Very nice. Unfortunately it doesn't look like Boost is available on F-Droid.
Yeah. It uses google ad-mob, or if you purchase it needs the google play store app to verify that and deactivate ad-mob.
A way to purchase it without going through gplay would fix this, and probably means it could be published on fdroid in a premium-only version at least. I've been meaning to ask @[email protected] about the feasibility of that for a while now. It's bothered me for years now, but I simply couldn't find an alternative so far (neither back on reddit in the days).