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.

  • 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.