Lemmy's Image Problem
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The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.

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

  • steal_your_face@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    That OP has been crying everywhere about the Lemmy devs being mean to him. Saw a few threads of his here on Lemmy.

    • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Ya, reading the GitHub issue sounds entirely like burnt out devs being abused by users. It’s a massive issue in open source.

      The Late Night Linux and Linux Dev Time podcasts talked about exactly this in a recent episode. It can be extremely demoralizing to do all this work for free for a project only to be inundated by ungrateful people demanding you fix something or implement a feature they want. Many open source projects have died because of that.

      • LucidNightmare@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        What I truly don’t understand is why the negative eggs that you WILL ALWAYS HAVE NO MATTER WHAT, read it again, ALWAYS HAVE NO MATTER WHAT, gets so much mental attention than the many more people who are actively applauding you and saying their thanks and giving you their praises.

        I will never understand the focusing on the negative I guess. It’d be easy as fuck for me to ignore people’s assholeishness while still taking their badly typed criticism and improving (if I reasonably can).

        Shit, it makes me feel like the fucking champ when some random persons says thanks for something I did, and I laugh and ignore the ones who don’t like what I do.

        But hey, if focusing on the few negatives instead of the mountains of praise is what you want to do, it’s all yours.

        • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Imagine you get approval to build a new park and playground for your neighbourhood. You spend hundreds of hours designing the plan and layout and you spend incredible amounts of your own money to get the resources.

          You get to work and things are going well. As you near the end of months upon months of work, the park finally opens for families and kids to use.

          As you’re standing there proud of your work, some people come over to you. Do they say “thank you!” or “you did amazing work”? No, they come over to complain about things that are missing, tell you what you should have done better, that you didn’t accommodate their each specific needs, etc.

          You would very quickly get bitter and demoralized.

          Like I mentioned before: this is a massive problem in the open source development world and has killed many great projects. This has nothing to do with “mental attention” and everything to do with users abusing the devs and their time.

          • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            In your analogy, the park didn’t follow any safety guidelines and people are dying on the rides and falling into a lake with piranhas.

            • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              4 months ago

              the park didn’t follow any safety guidelines and people are dying on the rides and falling into a lake with piranhas.

              In my analogy it’s a park with trees, bushes, rocks, and slides. I said “park in your neighbourhood” not “mega-extreme rollercoaster park”. I also said “you got approval” which is generally from the city or other governing municipal/county/regional body. And that also requires a plan to be submitted before approval is stamped.

              So no, what you did is make up a bunch of crap to strawman my argument and try to make what I said wrong in some way.

              Nice try.

              • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                4 months ago

                They by definition didn’t “get permission” if they are noncompliant with GDPR.

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 months ago

        We’re not talking about a user demanding you release a flatpak build targeting their personal linux distribution running in a VM’d WSL, we’re talking about a consumer facing social app that doesn’t include the functionality for a user to delete something they added.

        You know what the acronym used for describing the most basic functional web app api is?

        CRUD - Create, Read, Update, Delete

        • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          we’re talking about a consumer facing social app

          What we’re talking about is a complete free and open source project that’s built and maintained completely through volunteer labour.

          There are zero obligations towards the people actively using the software.

          While I agree that the functionality should exist, the devs can literally do whatever they want. Nobody is paying them.

          Edit: you’re also seeing only a single instance of a conversation. I can guarantee that the devs have been dealing with asinine and demanding users for a while now. There comes a point where your patience wears thin.