Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.

  • @CeeBee
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    07 months ago

    Why should it be handled professionally? I don’t necessarily disagree, but what makes you say that? This isn’t a paid job. They aren’t working for a corporation. And all of their work is voluntary for a free project.

    • @Maalus
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      27 months ago

      Does them working on the project voluntairly, makes them be able to steal code from non-opensource projects, ignore licenses and do other shit like that? If the answer is no, why does working on the project voluntairly lets them break the law in other ways?

      • @CeeBee
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        37 months ago

        steal code from non-opensource projects, ignore licenses and do other shit like that

        That’s a lot of incorrect assumptions there.

        They didn’t steal any code. They didn’t ignore licenses either. In fact, the only reason they had a judgment ruled against them is because they were taking monetary donations. Which was interpreted as “profiting”.

        They reverse engineered a process without stealing anything. They didn’t even circumvent DRM, which is actually protected by law on the grounds of creating personal backups and data/software preservation.

        You’re either very ignorant on the subject or you just ate up Nintendo’s BS.

        • @Maalus
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          27 months ago

          I was talking hypothetically. Are they allowed to do that? If not, then they cannot be noncompliant with GDPR, simple as.

          • @CeeBee
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            27 months ago

            Are they allowed to do that?

            Actually yes. The people that run afoul of the GDPR are the people who run the instance servers. The code writers are not the ones legally responsible.

            • @Maalus
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              17 months ago

              Yeah, theu are just as legally responsible as admins of instances.

              • @CeeBee
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                07 months ago

                That’s going to vary heavily based on regional laws. You cannot make such a blanket statement like that.

                • @Maalus
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                  07 months ago

                  Yes I can.

                  • @CeeBee
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                    17 months ago

                    Ok, sure. You can. You can also just be completely wrong at the same time.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      there is a lot of difference between a random internet forum and an issues forum. also that particular issue was made with good faith even though both of them might have gone overboard. people suck a lot and might even make stupid arguments or issues. people stick to your work because they like it and they hope it will continue without dying next day, even though you do it voluntarily. this gives more weight here since their work is more like an internet forum where people voice out their thoughts. given such weight, i think they should have handled it properly, if they did it would not have been made a post or an article. i have no biased opinion for any party here, but since I respect lemmy a lot and doesn’t want lemmy to have a bad name, i think their developers should not give in and be unprofessional and give lemmy a bad reputation.