Well, Boost is out and I thought I’d see what the fuss is about. I immediately saw a running “karma” total which turned me off but one feature I did appreciate was the ability to see the images I’ve uploaded and choose to delete them from the server if I’d like. This would be helpful as sometimes I upload the wrong image or forgot to crop. See screenshot below for an example of how it could work:
This is an interesting problem in Lemmy. The Lemmy backend doesn’t actually keep track of the delete keys associated with your account, so only the app that uploaded the media (or a server admin, of course) can issue a delete request.
The media delete API call also doesn’t federate, you would need to delete the post containing the media and wait for other servers’ caches to run out if you wanted to delete the post.
That’s interesting. I can see how it would be odd to implement but if it’s impossible for me to delete uploads from the app otherwise then I think it might be worthwhile.
It’s not a feature I missed but once I saw it it made a lot of sense to me.
I agree, it’s a good feauture. I just wanted to point out the caveats.