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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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[–] trent@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

The stuff listed in OP doesn't really seem like much concern. "What you put on the internet is there forever!" is completely true, and things like this should only make it more concrete that you can't rely on your service provider to delete information somebody else already archived.
With that being said, default privacy settings - at least on Kbin - seem pretty bad.

[–] grizzzlay@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think much of Mastodon as it is, so they're free to rag on Lemmy all they want.

[–] MoshBit@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As a life long anarchist, I personally find raddle to be a fucking embarrassment. The elitist bullshit is right up there with other political anarchist sites like anarchist news; they're all a fucking shit show and shows why anarchists will never accomplish anything.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't the fediverse an anarchist project?

It seems to be the most flat peer structure of any social media.

[–] Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty much yeah, either the fediverse or Usenet. Somebody pointed that out to them in the comments of the linked post but they dismissed the point as nonsense.

Very performative anarchists over there lol

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[–] Plume@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Eww. Well, there is a reason why I try and be extremely careful about what I post nowadays. Don't want to regret dumb shit I said in the future.

@elbowmacaroni if instead of linking to the post you had boosted it, would all the replies here appear in beehaw?

[–] Senseibu 4 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.

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[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] agitatedpotato@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Am I missing something or isnt it that no matter what Lemmy does all those same problems would still exist, just from the internet archival sites instead. Sure the privacy could be better to deter some of it, but none of those issues are fully solveable so long as thise archival sites run. I guess the media not deleting is likely the biggest thing you could effect that archives would be less likely to store in the first place.

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