I was just thinking about metadata, and it occurred to me that a big part of the problem with "ownership" of your #photography online is that #EXIF data is routinely stripped from files upon upload to social media.
I thought Mastodon would be different, so I downloaded one of my recent photos from here and checked. Sadly, no.
This seems like a huge oversight. I understand some people will want this for privacy's sake, but it should be something that could be enabled per account, surely?
@coldkennels@mastodon.social I agree. There were huge scandals many years ago with location data enabled by default allowing thieves to work out when owners weren't home, etc. So everyone started stripping it out, which is better. Except, as tech and SM skills have moved on, giving photographers the ability to set their own default, and also vary it on a case by case basis, seems like a no brainer to me. #Mastodon #Photography
@coldkennels@mastodon.social it wouldnt solve anything in that respect though because if you uploaded an image I could just strip the exif myself
This is highly unsatisfactory.