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PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

as the delete token isn’t stored anywhere on the backend.

Backend of the app or the lemmy server? if it is not stored on the lemmy server then there will be no way to delete it even if the app stores the token.

Also using a singular token that never expires to modify user content sounds like a bad idea. image operations like upload and delete should probably tied to the user credentials.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Backend of the app or the lemmy server? if it is not stored on the lemmy server then there will be no way to delete it even if the app stores the token.

Apologies, I worded that badly. Lemmy uses an image hosting service called pictrs to manage the images you upload, which is largely separated from the rest of the Lemmy backend. Pictrs of course stores the delete tokens matching each image, but Lemmy doesn't associate those tokens with the posts or comments they originated from as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That makes sense, probably why image deletion was so hard on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If you want this to be fixed, please tell the devs on the relevant GitHub Ticket

For some reason they think I'm literally the only person who wants it? At least that's what they keep saying as the reason for why they won't work on it.