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?

  • @WanderAEnglish
    136•11 months ago

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

      • The Quuuuuill
        60•11 months 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

      • [email protected]
        16•11 months 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.