Most mature social networks do remove this information to prevent users accidentally sharing their locations. Can someone positively say whether Lemmy is aware enough to strip extra information from photos?
Most mature social networks do remove this information to prevent users accidentally sharing their locations. Can someone positively say whether Lemmy is aware enough to strip extra information from photos?
Yes, pict-rs which is used b by Lemmy strips exif. Confirmed by the dev themselves.
What
Pict-rs is a rust library. Lemmy is a rust program. Lemmy uses pict-rs as a dependency. Pict-rs strips exif data. Exif data is the metadata that would include GPS data. Thus, lemmy strips GPS data
Tldr: yes
I don’t think we should be downvoting this guy. Take off your IT hats, folks, it wouldn’t mean much to people outside the industry.