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.

  • hamid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    296·
    9 months ago

    Oh hey it’s the article that drove me to become a sponsor of the lemmy project, for every demand and complaint there are many of us who are in solidarity with Lemmy devs and I’m happy to provide material support. This isn’t a business and this is a website to use for fun. There is no way GDPR would ever apply to this, it would require a complaint with merit and the instance owners to refuse to cooperate. There are no enforcement actions on GDPR against private individuals that don’t also include criminal charges in the EU. You can literally look up every GDPR enforcement action.

    Also it’s March not February

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      162·
      9 months ago

      GDPR applies to any entity that processes personal data. That includes instance owners. In fact of you look up GDPR enforcements you can that it’s also enforced against private persons.

        • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          Maybe you should reread what you wrote? You said there’s no way GDPR would ever apply. I said it does. You said there are no enforceable actions, there are. the part you thought makes you right is the “criminal charges” part but that makes zero sense to begin with because GDPR, as an EU wide regulation, imposes only fines and no criminal charges.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      9 months ago

      GDPR absolutely applies to Lemmy, it’s just that nobody has looked at it / there wasn’t a complaint. When that happens, lemmy will be in trouble.

        • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          9 months ago

          There will be enforcement if one asshole reports instances. Are you certain nobody will get disgruntled and report it?

            • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              9 months ago

              Yeah uh huh, I sure do suck mr random person on the internet. The only thing you are saying is “these people won’t audit lemmy because they don’t want to”. You think that in some magical way, lemmy will be immune. Guess what, it won’t. The fines aren’t simply because people aren’t cooperating (and the devs themselves said that they don’t care about GDPR outright). You don’t know how it works, all you do is wishful thinking and insulting others.