Bit of a red herring to put GDPR in the title when the article is about Lemmy missing key admin functions, and only tangentially how this runs afoul of GDPR.

TL;DR Lemmy hasn’t implemented image deletion for users or admins, so don’t upload your government ID.

I found it interesting how the maintainers reacted to these issues.

Would you mind if we set some of your priorities also? You're asking us to do free labor for you, that you're unwilling to do yourself. Do not put ultimatums and demands on people making FOSS, or I won't hesitate to block you from these repos.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4433#issuecomment-1939275302

This post made my curious about the instance he's on, monero.town, and the first post I see is Covid antivax shit

I'm gonna find this guy's image ...

https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.jpeg ... nope
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001.jpeg ... nope
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002.jpeg ... nope
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000003.jpeg ... nope

Mmm, I'm sure it won't take long. Just have to remember to do it all again for .jpg, .webp, and .png.

Anyway, I'll let you know when I get it.

Not that I hold the Lemmy devs in particular high regard, but unless OP is cutting them a check every month enough to pay their full time salaries, I really don't think that he should be expecting anything just because he faced an issue that was difficult, but (a) not specific to the developers but the admins of the instance and (b) ultimately solvable.

I also think that this is not a reason to justify a whole fork or even a fully adversarial position. Yeah, tooling for moderation and instance management is lacking, but these can be built on top of the existing codebase. If my fediverser tool does that for user authentication and account management, it could also be extended for content moderation and provide granular access for staff.

I would actually consider using normal reddit a nightmare, lemmy like the rest of the fediverse softwares mostly just feels like a community theater play put on by people who really passionately care about what they are making but have zero budget and so long as you go into not expecting a blockbuster movie it is awesome.

Do uploaded images get federated? If they do, this is a pointless losing battle