Title. I’m not the best with privacy… But wanted to upload a picture of my pupper. Thanks!

  • Jay K
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    391 year ago

    But you never know (unless you run your own instance) if your instance has been modified to record it somewhere before it is removed.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      But it is an open source project and the developers views are strongly in favor of privacy, so yeah you can self host it or check the source code. But I think it’s safe to assume they didn’t program it like that.

      Note that people who host an instance can theoretically change it, but still I wouldn’t worry it’ll actually happen.

      • @[email protected]
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        261 year ago

        Instance admins are pulling the code down and implementing it in their server. They could easily slip in some malicious backend code and there would be no way to verify it.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Of course, I said that too. And unless you self host yourself you have to trust the instance you’re using. But the question itself was more about lemmy in general, and most people just deploy the docker image or something.

          Also, I don’t believe that, assuming an average person host an instance, the host will want some random people metadata from photos. It’s not big corps that process every bit of data they get.

      • @Anders429
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        161 year ago

        Rule #1 in internet privacy: don’t assume best intentions of anyone. Just because it is open source does not mean whoever hosts the instance didn’t modify the source.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        21 year ago

        Good point. I’m just now getting to this thread to see all the replies, so I bet I’ll find some answers on how to do it via my android

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      But it is an open source project and the developers views are strongly in favor of privacy, so yeah you can self host it or check the source code. But I think it’s safe to assume they didn’t program it like that.

      Note that people who host an instance theoretically change it, but still I wouldn’t worry it’ll actually happen.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Isn’t this comment deleted for you too? (I replied twice by mistake)

          Anyway, yeah I completely agree. But as I replayed to a user at my other reply:

          I don’t believe that, assuming an average person host an instance, the host will want some random people metadata from photos. It’s not big corps that process every bit of data they get.

          • Dandroid
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            31 year ago

            No, it’s not deleted for me. I had the same problem as you. I replied twice, immediately deleted one, then had people responding to both and telling me that I replied twice.

            It’s really scary that deleting comments doesn’t work 100% of the time. And it’s ironic, given the topic of this discussion is privacy. Not being able to guarantee that your comments can be deleted 100% is a huge privacy concern. It might even be illegal in Europe, but idk.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              The deleted comments don’t get deleted too tho. The last edit is saved on the server anyways, so if you really want to delete something, edit it first and then delete it.

              • Dandroid
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                11 year ago

                Since then, I have been editing my comments several times to different variants of the word “Deleted”. Sometimes, I do brackets, sometimes I do Italics.