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Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i think OP may have mistaken Raddle for a mastodon instance of some kind, idk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here is the title of the Raddle post that was linked: "Warning: Lemmy doesn't care about your privacy, everything is tracked and stored forever, even if you delete it".

But wouldn't Mastodon instances be able to automatically backup posts, comments, edits, and deletions? Hell, users would be able to do it too yeah?

The whole idea of this being a privacy issue kind of goes against the whole internet archival movement and is really a moot point.

I can see this maybe being a problem with privacy regulations though.