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Well, yeah...
If you upload a picture to Lemmy, it's going to get saved by a shit of federated instances.
That's how federation works, but once it happens, it's hard to get all of them to delete it.
The fix is easy:
Upload somewhere else (theres a bunch of images hosts) then make your post point to that image host. Federated instances just have to host the link, so it's good for them too.
I'd love to see something like the RES feature where Lemmy can still show an expandable thumbnail for non-hosted images. RES pulled it off fine years ago, not sure how hard it would be.
But that would fix all these issues
Yeah it's like trying to delete a torrent that you created lol, deleting stuff from the Internet is not so easy. Even websites that claim to allow you to delete stuff may still be backed up by The Wayback Machine or similar, or even just a random user who liked your post and downloaded it.
I would like improvements here, but you should probably still be careful about anything you post if you're worried about being able to delete it, no matter what site you're on.