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

TheAnonymouseJoker Mod , 3 months ago

One of the golden rules of maintaining privacy was to not share what you did not want to be shared around in society. This rule has existed since cavemen learnt how to ape each others' drawings, symbols and sounds.

Are people this stupid nowadays?

grandel , 3 months ago

He couldnt have stressed more how this was accidental

Redjard , 3 months ago

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

Valmond , 3 months ago

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.

Redjard , 3 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.

zeps , 3 months ago

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

GolfNovemberUniform , 3 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