▲ 157 ▼ Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me) submitted 3 years ago by elbowmacaroni@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 282 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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
[–] fidodo@beehaw.org 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child) I'm also not sure how it's enforceable in a distributed system. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] __forward__@lemm.ee 7 points 3 years ago (2 children) Blockchains have the property of being append-only, so a blockchain is precisely what makes it impossible to delete transactions. That being said, in a distributed system, once the message leaves trusted servers, it is obviously also impossible to delete it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 4 points 3 years ago Nothing about how lemmy or the fediverse platforms work has anything to do with blockchains. Don't conflate "decentralization" to include blockchain. Torrents are also decentralized and have nothing to do with blockchains. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Why are you bringing up blockchain? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] __forward__@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago Lovely, the parent comment mentioned blockchain but was since edited... Trust me I would not have brought it up otherwise. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] __forward__@lemm.ee 7 points 3 years ago (2 children) Blockchains have the property of being append-only, so a blockchain is precisely what makes it impossible to delete transactions. That being said, in a distributed system, once the message leaves trusted servers, it is obviously also impossible to delete it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 4 points 3 years ago Nothing about how lemmy or the fediverse platforms work has anything to do with blockchains. Don't conflate "decentralization" to include blockchain. Torrents are also decentralized and have nothing to do with blockchains. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Why are you bringing up blockchain? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] __forward__@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago Lovely, the parent comment mentioned blockchain but was since edited... Trust me I would not have brought it up otherwise. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 4 points 3 years ago Nothing about how lemmy or the fediverse platforms work has anything to do with blockchains. Don't conflate "decentralization" to include blockchain. Torrents are also decentralized and have nothing to do with blockchains. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Why are you bringing up blockchain? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] __forward__@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago Lovely, the parent comment mentioned blockchain but was since edited... Trust me I would not have brought it up otherwise. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] __forward__@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago Lovely, the parent comment mentioned blockchain but was since edited... Trust me I would not have brought it up otherwise. permalink fedilink source parent