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Do I have the right to recover my 'art'?

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[–] __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I feel with you for losing things, but please do not bring the whole my rights debate here into Lemmy. If Lemmy hosts/admins start getting into legal trouble the whole network will collapse. It's a nice place to share things without any responsibilities or rights. At least this is my opinion.

That being said, I would also strongly suggest to keep local backups of art you upload. It can always happen that data corruption occurs even on a server that might make thinga get lost, and that would be really sad in the case of art.

(Obviousely not saying this is what happened in your case.)

[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

English is not my 1st language and honestly using the word right did feel out of place. I fully understand your concern about the lemmy legal scenario and I wanna make clear it was never my intention to refer to the actual law or human rights.

I just want to learn what recovery options do Lemmy's system have, that's all. It's a bit confusing there is never an explanation neither notification at all when a post or comment is removed. Not even when banned from a community.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

In the main Lemmy UI click your username at the top right and select profile, in the row of buttons select Uploads and all your uploaded media is there even if the post is deleted.

[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks, this is useful. I found an apparently removed meme, but I can't see in which community was posted (and I don't remember either, because it's a year old post) or why was it removed now.

It's just so wierd my meme with 200 likes was removed more than a year later. There haven't been any activity in it's comments lately either. It was a pretty mild meme too, just criticizing Apple for mining in Africa.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

One of the joys of human moderation! (Not that other options are better)

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

This is true but I just want to add that instance admins can purge the uploads/posts entirely with a button that's right next to "delete". I recommend keeping a local copy of media you want to keep.

Mostly the purge option is used for fucked up/illegal stuff, but can't speak for every admin. Might be someone's go-to button for deleting posts.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 15 hours ago

This actually makes me wonder if uploads as posts are even deleted if the post itself is removed. I sure haven't seen any options as a moderator at least that would allow me to remove an upload itself, so if you keep the URL of an image you upload to the instance, that url is likely still valid.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Please consider creating an account on my instance. It's very small, and we don't moderate heavily. Your work would be safe with us.

redlemmy.com

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

FYI, the Photon version you're running is over a year out of date.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 15 hours ago

Thanks, I'll bring it up with my hosting provider.