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Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)
submitted 2 years 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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[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It could defederate any non-compliant instances.

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It could, but actually policing it would be difficult. I don’t think there is any “yeah I’ll do that” response and even if there is an instance could say it will delete it and still do nothing.

[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

You could defederate with instances running versions that don't delete federated posts. Removing compatipility with older protocol implementations is not unheard of.