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Privacy on Lemmy (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by brad_long_arms@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been sent this article about privacy on Lemmy and I would like to have more opinions about it.

I come from the Matrix world where there is no history deletion neither but at least everything is encrypted.

Can we hope anything about privacy on Lemmy ?
Especially with all the attention it's getting right now.

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[–] 3migo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Arguably worse for privacy than Reddit"

This poster clearly has some sort of vendetta against Lemmy and/or its creators with the comments on politics, etc.

Reddit takes your activity and packages/sells your data to advertisers. Lemmy does not. To say Lemmy is worse than Reddit for privacy is just not true.

I'd take that post with a hefty grain of salt.

[–] Generator@lemmy.pt 2 points 1 year ago

This poster clearly has some sort of vendetta against Lemmy and/or its creators with the comments on politics, etc.

It does https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout

Not taking sides, but saying that is worse than Reddit is more a vendeta than something else

[–] venoft@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

On lemmy (and mastodon, kbin, etc) it seems like it's extremely easy for a third party company to datamine everyone's data, even deleted ones. Federated software is terrible for privacy because it creates hundreds of backups to the federated instances. Any one of those instances can decide not to actually delete anything when requested.

[–] XLRV@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's really some bad faith arguments they made, it seems they want to promote their Reddit alternative by slandering Lemmy.