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?

  • @WanderA
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    1361 year ago

    Yes, pict-rs which is used b by Lemmy strips exif. Confirmed by the dev themselves.

      • The Quuuuuill
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        601 year ago

        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

      • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
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        161 year ago

        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.