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Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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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[–] 11 points 3 years ago (5 children)

It's impossible to federate these without making them public in this way.

The up-votes are also mapped to favourites in Mastodon etc, so that was always public anyway.

You could argue that this should not be hidden in the Lemmy UI, but there are also good reasons to not highlight that much who voted on a post.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I thought votes didn't federate yet anyways... but, yes, it is possible, and i can come up off the top of my head with three or four potential implementations.

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