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Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it's visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit.

  • Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible
  • Deleted account usernames remain visible too
  • Anything remains visible on federated servers!
  • When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server
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[–] MrEUser@lemmy.ninja 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I’m at a loss. You’re saying that things that you said publicly are private? Or you’re saying that they become private because you delete your account? Assume you dox someone. I need to find out if that happened. As an admin I’d be able to see that

  1. you
  2. publicly posted
  3. their data

I would need to be able to provide this to authorities if they provided needed legal documentation. Why do you think that privacy dictates you should be able to commit a crime, and get away with it by deleting your account?

[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't Mastodon have the same legal requirements?

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[–] Senseibu@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this is a feature, well the media aspect anyway. Immutable media. The rest can be developed on.

[–] sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It isn't truly immutable though, and could be dangerous to propigate the idea that it is 100% immutable

[–] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Mastodon should just leave us alone!

[–] ivy@fedi196.gay 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

i use kbin because I don't like lemmy's devs 🙃
bonus points that it actually deletes things

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[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Kinda unsurprising as rumors have it that lemmy's developed by pro-China Tankies.

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[–] x2XS2L0U@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I switch accounts after some time and use other ones. It's quiet okay this way

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