alt Hacker NewsIn today's world of everyone buying up all the data they can to train LLMs, the trust that any "simple little project" isn't doing that is gone.
A couple of sentences saying "pictures won't be used for anything and will be retained for X days" goes a long way to reassuring even if there isn't source code or any way to verify them.
Legalistic objections ought not to be the first reactions to appear to a project like this. That's not the intended spirit of the site.
It's easy for generic criticisms to pop up first in a thread because they come to mind so quickly. It takes little effort to fire them off or to put down someone else's work.
In this case you led with your feelings about social issues. Those are important, but in a thread like this, they are a bummer—doubly so when there hasn't yet been time for interesting (and interested!) comments to appear. What incentive do people have to share anything if they can expect to get scolded and told that society ought not to tolerate this?
That's why I'm replying at such length; probably too intensely, sorry! I don't intend any of it personally—I just know how sensitive to initial conditions HN threads are.