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

[–] ivy@fedi196.gay 5 points 2 years 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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[–] trent@kbin.social 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] Kushi@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a link to Raddle.me, what does this have to do with Mastodon?

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[–] MrEUser@lemmy.ninja 4 points 2 years ago (2 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?

[–] mainfrog@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I don't think there is a legal requirement that you store that data, just that you make the data you do store available or in some situations you add logging for valid law enforcement requests.

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[–] Senseibu@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years 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 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That said, anarkiddies rallying against federation and preferring to use a centralized service like raddle is very funny.

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