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submitted 9 months ago by maltfield@monero.town to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs.

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This is (also) a horror story about accidentally uploading very sensitive data to Lemmy, and the (surprisingly) difficult task of deleting it.

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[-] maltfield@monero.town 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hi, unfortunate author here ๐Ÿ˜…

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?

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

Boost does, under settings, general, uploaded images. Here is mine:
boost uploaded images list

I can delete them there (or forfeit the ability to do so)

[-] maltfield@monero.town 2 points 9 months ago

Very nice. Unfortunately it doesn't look like Boost is available on F-Droid.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah. It uses google ad-mob, or if you purchase it needs the google play store app to verify that and deactivate ad-mob.
A way to purchase it without going through gplay would fix this, and probably means it could be published on fdroid in a premium-only version at least. I've been meaning to ask @rmayayo@lemmy.world about the feasibility of that for a while now. It's bothered me for years now, but I simply couldn't find an alternative so far (neither back on reddit in the days).

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