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 TilleyOPMEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    Perhaps you could enlighten me on what Fediverse software does take “privacy, user safety, or basic controls to handle when shit hits the bed” into consideration, because I can’t think of any; they all just expect every other server in the network not to be malicious.

    Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, tentatively Bonfire, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Akkoma. Off the top of my head.

    • Skull giverEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      In what way are those better? Don’t they still suffer from the privacy problems that come with federation? In fact, Peertube’s P2P nature makes it one of the least private and secure Fediverse implementations I know of. From what I can see experimenting with Pixelfed, PeerTube, and Akkoma, they’re suffering from the same privacy and user safety issues Lemmy suffers from. Like on Bluesky, the user-facing controls are in no way enforced when activities cross federation in any way, so they only work in whitelist-based, tight-knit communities or defederated instances.

      I find Friendica’s “expiration” to be quite disingenuous, because the language on the front page implies privacy features that can’t be attained in real life. That also goes for their controls, promising private chats that are only as private as the participating servers are willing to make them.

      Hubzilla and Streams seem very interesting. I’ll have to dig into those, they seem very promising.

      • Lionir [he/him]English
        1•1 year ago

        In what way are those better? Don’t they still suffer from the privacy problems that come with federation?

        Yes, the issue is that Lemmy does not even attempt to allow you to delete the image. There is no control for the user to do this. It’s literally not possible.

        • Skull giverEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          There is this little popup when you use the file browser to upload files:

          But you’re right, this could be better. Luckly, after all the drama, a fix is being released ahead of schedule, though I don’t know when the next official Lemmy release will be. Still, servers running on the nightly version of Lemmy should get this fixed shortly.