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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

There's a difference between "there's no way to guarantee total privacy" and "the system is designed to guarantee no privacy", though. Even the best of us fuck up and say something they shouldn't on occasion, and plenty of people online were never given proper lessons or are too young to understand how serious revealing information is.

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