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

submitted 2 years ago by maltfield@monero.town to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs.


Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story)

This is (also) a horror story about accidentally uploading very sensitive data to Lemmy, and the (surprisingly) difficult task of deleting it.

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[–] maltfield@monero.town [S] 4 points 2 years ago

Fortunately, in my case, my image was "orphaned" and never actually attached to a post or comment, so it wouldn't have federated.

If the image has already federated then that's a whole next level problem :(

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