This is all quite old drama, and the issue itself is fixed now, but at one point someone kicked off about how if you uploaded a picture to Lemmy, there was no easy way to delete it (you could delete your post, but the image would still be there at whatever URL was created for it, and it wasn't even that easy for admins to find and remove it) - so I'm guessing that it stems from that.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Its older than that, and still ongoing. The devs doubled down on how GDPR (and user data privacy rights in general) do not matter to them

[–] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Source? I did a cursory search for "GDPR" on the GitHub issues and can't find anything like that.

Anyway, this seems to be their more recent stance:

For the future, any GDPR compliance advice needs to come from a lawyer, not from random non-lawyers interpreting what they think is correct.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4540#issuecomment-2018920191

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

I dont know what you mean. If you search for GDPR (including closed tickets) in both the Lemmy and lemmy-ui repos, you'll see lots of bugs that make running Lemmy illegal for instance admins.

Here's one particularly egregious example

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2384#issuecomment-1978679289

[–] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Uhh... The other dev. Yeah, he's obviously wrong.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 40 minutes ago

He admitted it at the end of the ticket

Unfortunately there was some miscommunication in this issue and we failed to get to the root cause. In fact the Lemmy backend has an option to delete all content when an account is deleted. This used to be the default behaviour but was changed in 0.19 so you need to set a parameter delete_content. We failed to add a checkbox for this parameter to lemmy-ui.

However the checkbox is added now in #2385 and will be included in the next Lemmy release. Other frontends and clients may also need to adjust the delete_account api call.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

That's pretty much it

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, what? Can you elaborate?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago

See the other comment