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Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024)
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There's no guarantee on third party tools continuing to work with Lemmy. Something as critical as deleting images, which can cause problems like revenge porn and such, must be given priority by the official project.
We will never block third party tools, and will always have an open API.
One of the PRs I've been working on, is an interface to view your image uploads and delete them. This is not trivial, but will probably be in the next release.
Thank you for your service
Lemmy providing an open API does not mean that third parties maintain compatibility forever. (Edit: for example, what happens if the third party app gets taken away by a malicious maintainer? Or becomes buggy, or un-maintainable, project dies, etc.)
I don't want to upset you, but I think I have to say this for the sake of the community. The attitude like "we provide an API, so third parties will follow," is what is causing instance admins' distrust in the first place.