@hello Thanks for this. I'm working on an app that uses the Lemmy API, and I couldn't figure out for the life of me a workable way to delete images. I figured I'd eventually circle back to that functionality later.
@MichaelAltfield@hello Right. That would work if the user wants to delete the image immediately. But what if the user wants to delete an older image? I was just hoping there was an alternative that I was missing.
@MichaelAltfield@hello Haha, yeah, I had a sentence in my last reply stating that I don't like the idea of storing a small database of tokens and image links on the user's device, but I deleted it for brevity. Seems that's the only alternative right now.
@MichaelAltfield@marlinspike@hello Mi head is spinning about the fact that this is a thing. This could win the best picture award In the Oversight Oscars
@deadsuperhero@flounderpictures@MichaelAltfield@marlinspike@hello Wait wait I just read the full answer from the admins and boy is this WILD. Knowing the fediverse people on GitHub, I think Lemmy's devs may start to experience some "though love" in the tickets
"Kiwifarms is on the Fediverse. They have actively been responsible for harassment on the Fediverse before, and the impact that they have on Fediverse development is noticeable. If there is an exploit to abuse and harass someone in a platform they WILL find it and use it."
@berniethewordsmith Really good read. Yeah, it's a profoundly bad situation, and I don't think the project is likely to survive long-term with the way things are being run.
It just blows me away that someone points out privacy issues, difficulty deleting anything, and a whole can of worms for Trust & Safety, and the devs just act like absolute dickheads in their responses.
Like gee, I dunno, these problems will affect your users' abilities from running instances long term!
@berniethewordsmith as much as I hold a negative bias towards the developers, in terms of their attitude, I don't wish harassment towards anybody. I do want to see people engage and ask for accountability, and I do want to see those devs actually take this aspect seriously.
But, if nothing changes: I'd rather just see Sublinks get polished off as a drop-in replacement, and everyone just ends up switching to that. Or new instances at least choosing literally any other project in the space.
@deadsuperhero@berniethewordsmith@MichaelAltfield i took at look at the gh discussions. despite the sitch being v dire, i thought at least the devs were responsive to the need to make it work, and easily for end users.