Bit of a red herring to put GDPR in the title when the article is about Lemmy missing key admin functions, and only tangentially how this runs afoul of GDPR.
TL;DR Lemmy hasn’t implemented image deletion for users or admins, so don’t upload your government ID.
Bit of a red herring to put GDPR in the title when the article is about Lemmy missing key admin functions, and only tangentially how this runs afoul of GDPR.
I haven’t read the GDPR, yet, but it’s still a serious issue – GDPR or not. Imagine if Instagram did that. Everybody would seriously go bonkers and rightfully so.
System administrators often aren’t software developers. Lemmy users need to trust Lemmy admins and Lemmy admins need to trust Lemmy developers. Maybe not letting users delete any uploaded media isn’t outright illegal, maybe it is. I’m in the camp of it being definitively not cool.
Inflicting lawyers on an open source project is a great way to drive off the developers.
If I hear Lemmy has a GDPR problem I assume it’s lawyer BS only European instance admins have to worry about.
If I hear Lemmy has bugs in basic CRUD functionality, that’s a real issue.
If I hear Lemmy has bugs in basic CRUD functionality, that’s a real issue.
Coincidentally I saw bug reports by that person and another person earlier that day (before the blog post was published), including one opened months ago with absolutely no reaction at all of even acknowledging that this is even an issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3973
I’ve heard from time to time that Lemmy developers can be difficult to work with (I never worked with them, so I make it clear that this is hearsay) but I have the suspicion that there is some merit to that.
Aren’t the key admin functions missing leading to GDPR non compliance?
Yeah, but talking about GDPR is burying the lede.
I found it interesting how the maintainers reacted to these issues.
Would you mind if we set some of your priorities also? You’re asking us to do free labor for you, that you’re unwilling to do yourself. Do not put ultimatums and demands on people making FOSS, or I won’t hesitate to block you from these repos.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4433#issuecomment-1939275302
Just another guy who thinks he’s Gods gift to open source because he found a bug, and thinks the volunteer developers fail to show proper gratitude by not dropping everything to work on your pet bug.
Interestingly, he was silent for 3 weeks after being assigned to the bug, then came back to post his blog post and nothing else. I’ve seen this blog post a few times today, looks like his self promoting strategy is working.
I agree commenting that post under every issue was a dick move.
To be fair, this is a bug that could be the end of lemmy. As soon as one malicious actor sues even a few instance admins, other will get scared and shut down their instances. As the reporter points out, this isn’t just a shiny feature that’s missing. Instance admins lack the ability to follow data protection requirements that their users have a right to. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
To be fair, this is a bug that could be the end of lemmy.
Then the reporter should have acted like it was, indeed, that important. Like, putting money or a PR into it.
Just “someone, sometime, somewhere, might sue” does not suffice to fix things. Just like with physical products in the real world, if someone, somewhere, sometime, might sue, then you designate money, time and staff into your project to pre-corect the things to minimize the chance of that happening, or to buy whatever auditing / maintenance needed to check for issues.
And, correctly enough, the devs are not saying “we won’t fix this”. They are saying, “fix this requires people to pour $X time and $y money into it. Care to chime in?”
Unfortunately, the world of free software users is full of “couch coaches”.
The lemmy devs are communist, isn’t doing free labor their whole thing?
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I would actually consider using normal reddit a nightmare, lemmy like the rest of the fediverse softwares mostly just feels like a community theater play put on by people who really passionately care about what they are making but have zero budget and so long as you go into not expecting a blockbuster movie it is awesome.
