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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[–] 5 points 3 years ago

Not really, same as email. Once you send it out and it's on somebody else's server, you can request they delete it but that's about it. They have a copy of your message and can do whatever they want with that.

This is not a principle that needs solving imo, it's the nature of Internet. If you post it online then you should know that there's a chance it'll be there permanently.

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