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Lemmy instance admin snooping at votes (monero.town)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by pop@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So I was going through /all and this admin is snooping at vote counts for posts in his instance and then posting it publicly.

Just a reminder that these kind of petty people exist. Pick a trustworthy instance or better yet, host your own.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I can't answer your question about the votes, but posts and comments are retained when you hit the delete button. The only way to delete them is to edit the content beforehand. I believe moderators are capable of restoring posts, but I haven't checked the comments yet.

There's no reason where this has to be the behavior by default; federation alone is a challenge but not an excuse. Ironically, when it comes to privacy, a company like Reddit (with sketchy privacy policies) might be better than Lemmy (a series of entities in a variety of jurisdictions where your data is protected by the weakest of all of their privacy policies)