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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 1 year ago by GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml 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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[–] tookmyname@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, everything you post is archived somewhere else in the same way. There’s multiple copies of everything on Reddit elsewhere, even if you delete your account and comments successfully without them restoring it.

In every other way than the one you mention, federation is more private. Especially since the data isn’t being collected to be sold.

[–] fullstopslash@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The data isn't being collected to be sold /yet/.

[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Eh, if i wanted to i could scrape various instances and do whatever i want. The question is would i be able to pin information to identities without the accompanying meta data or would i only get a big text corpus.

The benefit of the fediverse is that no instance can sell the whole package, because most instances only have the posts of most users and nothing more. Reddit has way more additional data that can be used to track and identify someone.