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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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PSA: you can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude. That would be bad 😱 (tech.michaelaltfield.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs.


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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In boost I have a list of all my uploaded pictures, where I can delete them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If someone on my instance checks out a post with one of your photos, it will be downloaded to the pictrs folder on my server, and then served to the user. This is how Lemmy works.

I don't see how your boost can manage to delete it from there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yes, the deletion would have to be federated, there is no way to guarantee anything at that point. But as I understand OP this is about acting quickly, on an upload that isn't even part of a post yet.

If I doxx myself on any service, someone can take a screenshot, it could be archived. But If I delete it before anyone sees it, there is a good chance it will never get out, if the primary platform properly removes it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Good post! Also an exercise in how many times you can include the same link lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Well anything you upload to the Internet is very hard to delete. It's just on Lemmy it's more obvious. Anyways gtk admins can delete stuff