I love this space and I keep wanting to share photos of outfits I have put together, but I don’t know how to do that in a way that protects my privacy … It seems like a lot of effort to use software to edit the photos to make them safe to share, for example.
I was wanting to check with the community and see how women solve this problem generally, and maybe brainstorm a list of ideas of ways to safely share selfies / photos, here were some ideas I had:
- take photos with neutral backgrounds that don’t disclose private information (e.g. location)
- use something like an emoji to cover up face
- find a way to share the photo in a password protected way (with what service?), and only distribute the password to users you trust (unclear on the logistics here)
- share the photo with an expiration feature, e.g. allowing only a certain number of times to view it (Signal has a feature like this) or that expires after some amount of time
Was wondering how you all find online spaces for women where it’s safe to share outfits.
I know on Reddit, some of the subreddits for finding a good bra make every post a spoiler, making it harder for prurient men to easily browse and preview photos, etc.
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I’d be happy to make up a little tool / bot that can be used for posting stuff privately this way. Automatically remove the metadata from an uploaded image, and then host it, having options for:
- Emoji obscure the face
- Require Anubis verification before it will serve the image
- Delete after a certain length of time
- Post to Lemmy anonymously
Something like that. I am male so maybe it is creepy for me to offer to host the thing, but if someone else wants to volunteer for that part (you can self host or do one of those $10/mo VPS things), the software to do that would be super easy to create.
Philip that’s so kind of you thanks so much! Would you mind taking it to DMs? We’re a women’s only community so don’t allow male comments
