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Tell me if I’m wrong, but federated systems don’t seem to be the best for privacy because you can’t ever delete all of the copies of your posts and comments? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I was thinking about this recently… By going to a federated system, one that essentially copies all of your content from one instance to another, when you delete a comment, does that comment get deleted on every instance? Is that even possible?

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago

No, centralized social networks suffer less from this problem. If all data is stored on one platform, only that platform needs to delete it and it's gone. If they don't, they risk enforcement by authorities. In the fediverse, every instance has to delete it and there are too many to effectively enforce.

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