Edit: I mean I accidentally posted to the perchance public gallery, not to lemmy . I’m an idiot, and I need help. I might have accidentally uploaded an embarrassing image with names in it to the public image gallery. I’m not even sure I did, but it’s possible. I’m worried that someone I know will see it. It’s not been upvoted from what I can see, since it’s not “trending” or “best.” I can’t find it in recent because it’s already deeply buried. My questions:

  1. Any way I can delete it?
  2. Will it get auto deleted after a while? If so, do you know how long?
  3. Will it appear on google images?
  4. Do I have any recourse?
  5. Do I even need to be worried?

Thank you, and sorry for being so dumb.

  • @blackstampedeEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    Edit: just realized you were talking about Perchance. The following is about images uploaded to Lemmy. Sorry.

    1. As far as I know, the answer is “no”, although you can contact the lemmy.world admins/host and ask them to do it, maybe. That doesn’t stop it from being hosted off of instances that synced with yours.
    2. I assume that Lemmy instances will delete images on really old posts eventually, but I don’t know for sure. If there is a retention policy, it probably varies by instance.
    3. Probably, but it will likely be buried thousands or millions of images down.
    4. Not really.
    5. Unless it has credit card info or something in it, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Do what you can and move on. The odds that anyone close to you will find it is low unless they’re closely monitoring your account.