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I'm a bit confused about how photo privacy works in Friendica. But confused in a good way.

You basically upload photos into your photo collection, which may contain private and public photos. When uploading photos via the post editor for a private post, the photos are set as private, for a public post they are set as public; it doesn't present the separate permissions form of the normal photo uploader. Great.

But here's the mystery: if you forget to set the post to private, then upload the photo, only then switch the post to private, you would expect the photo to be uploaded as public. But somehow Friendica knows what you wanted and protects you: my test shows that such a photo is marked as private anyway!

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in reply to Gidi Kroon

Mario Vavti
Mario Vavti
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I guess, like in Hubzilla, the ultimate photo permission is only set at the moment you actually submit the post.
in reply to Gidi Kroon

Mike Macgirvin
Mike Macgirvin
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You'll probably also find that if you upload a photo into a post but never finish the post, the photo will be visible only to you - because we never assume that it was meant to be public. I'm certain the actual code is much different now, but that's the way I wrote it originally.
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