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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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[–] AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago

I wasn't planning on doing any banking through Lemmy.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

[–] HorseFD@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (17 children)

So just to clarify this point:

Anything remains visible on federated servers!

If I delete a comment on beehaw.org, it doesn't get deleted when accessed from another Lemmy instance that federates with Beehaw?

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[–] Senseibu@feddit.uk 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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[–] mainfrog@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible

This is a negative behavior by Lemmy, in my opinion. Deleted comments should be purged after some time. Tildes does the same thing - I think with 30 days?

Deleted account usernames remain visible too

These should be replaced with some random string of characters or something like DeleteUser or something.

Anything remains visible on federated servers!

This is just a concession of federation.

When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server

This is an issue, too, in my opinion.

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, this is definitely something that can be added - and in fact it might even be beneficial to server costs. Alongside optional deletion of cached data from other instances maybe a year or two after the data arrived.

People need to remember that Lemmy is an alpha software - we haven't even reached the big 1.0 release

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[–] Kushi@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ivy@fedi196.gay 3 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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