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

tech.michaelaltfield.net /2024/03/04/lemmy-fediverse-gdpr/

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

Nightmare on Lemmy St - A GDPR Horror Story
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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  • In the future, please use cross post instead and not click bait titles into different communities.

    On a more related note, do you have knowledge if the image was federated outwards? I’m fairly sure I’ve subscribed to that community, so there may be an off chance I have received a copy of the image as part of federation. Is there any way to scour other instances to find images that is federated out and needs to be removed?

    • 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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