This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs.
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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.
That’s pretty unfortunate for the blog author, can imagine making that kind of mistake early in the morning will really wake you up.
The blog doesn’t mention specifically whether the author had uploaded using a Lemmy app or the webui AFAICT - if he used an app, there are some that actually store the auth/delete token returned by image uploads, and provide a section within the app where you can manage/delete (purge) images you’ve previously uploaded to Lemmy
Hi, unfortunate author here 😅
The issue happened in Jerboa. I opened a few tickets in the Jerboa app’s GitHub to address this:
Can you please tell us which Lemmy client apps you use that store the delete token and have a UI to delete uploaded images?