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.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    The thing that really gets me with these, is that we are 2-4 devs working on software used by over 40k ppl. It is absolutely impossible to please everyone, and fix every issue, there just isn't enough of us.

    Oftentimes we ask for ppl to do the open source thing, and contribute a PR, and many of them do.

    Anyone can look at our github profiles and see how busy we've been, and how many moderation related issues we've been working on, this is all out in the open. Yet writers of these articles somehow never bother to look, or reach out to us for questions. The amount of entitlement and second-hand rumors is really dissapointing.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlM
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      4 months ago

      I've reviewed both your and @Nutomic's comments, your latest blog updates, and GitHub PR's, and added a section accordingly: https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/lemmy-image-problem/#giving-credit

      Thank you for your hard work, and for taking necessary steps to improve something that is essential for instance operators.

      • nutomic@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        Thanks that is a bit better. Unfortunately people who have already read the article wont see the update, and even people who read it now may not read all the way to the end, and still leave with a negative impression. Still its better than nothing.

        To get an idea how most Lemmy users feel, have a look at this thread. Practically every comment is positive about Lemmy, you can hardly find any negative sentiment. And certainly no one cares about this image deletion issue, which proves that the complaints of a few individuals are completely blown out of proportion.

        • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
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          4 months ago

          As a user, I love lemmy, and I want to thank you and the other devs that work tirelessly to develop it.

          Also as a user I value the ability to manage my data, and hope to see image deletion implemented when you’re able to do so.

          After having read the Nightmare piece, my decision was to stop posting images directly to lemmy. To share images, I’m going to self host an Imgur like service so if I do want to delete an image, I can.

          I’m not a developer, and can’t contribute code to address the problem, but, at least for myself, I’ve got a solution I can implement.