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PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude
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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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How hard can it be to fix?
Well, the first thing a server does with your image is to send it to a lot of other, completely unrelated servers.
That's not quite true - images are only shared if you attach the image to federated content, such as a post or comment. Then yes other instances will cache the image.
If you never do that, and just upload an image accidentally like OP then it will not be federated AFAIK.
This is false.
In the case of the article, the image was never sent to other servers. In fact, that is the last thing it does.