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.

  • Sean TilleyOPEnglish
    -4•1 year ago

    It’s honestly mind-blowing. At every turn, for no reason at all, they act like a bunch of dicks. It’s like they decided to run a community project based on engineering prowess alone, and nothing else.

    Except the engineering isn’t all that good, either.

      • Sean TilleyOPEnglish
        12•1 year ago

        The reason that an open source developer might experience burnout are myriad, but can include:

        • Lack of compensation
        • Insufficient tooling or project infrastructure
        • A high ratio of operators to maintainers
        • Lack of a concrete roadmap, quality documentation, tests, essential resources
        • Lack of an onboarding process for new contributors
        • Inability to reconcile differences with contributors, leading to hard forks or exodus of contributors
        • Intractable architectural issues that require substantial engineering effort, possibly more than the maintainer can actually contribute

        As someone who has done Community Management for an open source, decentralized communication platform (Diaspora), I am familiar with all of these things. This shit is hard, and I am not denying that Lemmy devs have done a lot of good work.

        The problem is actually much simpler than you’re making it out to be. For a social platform, which depends on interconnected self-hosted communities to succeed, you absolutely have to build in the tools and utilities necessary to deal with all the crazy shit that comes with the territory. Ignoring this causes a cascade of problems that gradually get worse the longer they remain unaddressed.

        The devs are surviving on crowdfunding and grants, and doing the best they can with that. That’s commendable! They probably need more of both to have their needs fully covered. But don’t get it twisted: receiving proceeds for your work is not the same thing as working for free.

      • RubberDuckEnglish
        7•1 year ago

        And on .ml you get banned for saying otherwise. Check their modlog.

        • Sean TilleyOPEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          Yeah, one of the project devs threatened to ban me after I told him to get past his own ego.

          • RubberDuckEnglish
            3•1 year ago

            Par for the course. I hope for them they don’t break the ethics clauses of their financing.

      • @Arelin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        -14•1 year ago

        Well yeah? The only countries accusing China of mishandling the ETIM in Xinjiang (an issue created by the US through Afganistan btw) are the ones committing an actual genocide in Palestine, i.e imperial core countries. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Global South and Muslim countries in general are against the western propaganda about it.

        20 . Welcomes the outcomes of the visit conducted by the General Secretariat’s delegation upon invitation from the People’s Republic of China; commends the efforts of the People’s Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People’s Republic of China.

        • TxzKEnglish
          11•1 year ago

          Yeah, because the West is also committing a genocide, that means your genocide is ok. Both are doing genocides. Torturing and raping hundreds if thousands of Uyghurs, forcing them to abandon their culture, forced birth control, forced labour, forced sterilisation and prosecution without any legal process isn’t just combating ETIM terrorists. That’s same level of BS argument Israel is using while flattening entire Gaza and saying they’re only combating Hamas terrorists.

          “The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Muslim countries in general are against the western propaganda about it”

          Because they’re corrupt shitheads? They don’t give shit about human rights either, they see more profit from supporting China same way the west sees more profit supporting Israel.

          Sources:

          And you can’t say Amnesty International is Western propaganda because they’re very critical of Israel and it’s genocide as well.