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.

  • pop@lemmy.mlEnglish
    117·
    8 months ago

    You seem to know what you are talking about. Have you made a pull request yet?

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      79·
      8 months ago

      Have you learned how to program to fix the problem?

      It doesn’t seem worth my time to learn Rust just to submit a PR to devs who behave like that, they’ll just reject it and be pithy, like they are when a user asks them to comply with EU privacy law.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          41·
          8 months ago

          It is not entitled to expect a published project to comply with basic privacy legislation and not be illegal to use.

          If your bar for this project is that much below basic consumer expectations, then this project was always going to fail.

            • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
              11·
              8 months ago

              I understand having frayed nerves, I even understand snapping at someone because you’re having a bad day, and I do feel sympathy for the devs, and wouldn’t hold this against them (especially since they’re at least providing a nuke everything option that will address it).

              But the line between entitlement and reasonable expectation is not one of monetary compensation.

              Engineering ethics does not let you off the hook just because no one paid you to build what you built. If an engineer goes to the park and unilaterally builds a playground that doesn’t meet basic legislated safety standards and kills a kid, they’re not off the hook. They will be investigated by their professional body and have their license revoked.

              Hell if they just build a playground off in the woods on their own private land but don’t take reasonable steps to prevent kids from accessing or using it then they will have their license revoked.

                • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
                  2·
                  8 months ago

                  Again, that does not matter. If an engineer published those plans online and you built it and your kid died they would have their license revoked and face likely criminal liability.

              • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                7 months ago

                Your failure to provide a reliable source for your claims is not my problem.

                If you cannot provide a reliable source of your claims, your claim will be dismissed.

        • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

          Is it entitlement if it’s making using the entire thing illegal everywhere? Since there is no tooling to block traffic from the EU / not federate with instances that don’t comply with GDPR?

            • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              I don’t care if they are mean. The app isn’t GDPR compliant. That’s what matters.

                • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  8 months ago

                  They can’t be in the EU or the US. That cuts like 99% of them off. That’s exactly my point - they don’t want to implement something that makes the app illegal with 99% of the userbase being from there.