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Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)
submitted 1 year ago by elbowmacaroni@beehaw.org 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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[–] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I think this is a great point. I would say its much less of a privacy issue and more of a technical issue.

I think deletions should propagate across all instances and there should be a level of trust between federated servers that they will make those deletions as requested. If only because we'd have a mismatch and orphan comments lingering in perpetuity and we could end up with wildly inconsistent data across the fediverse.