Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you?
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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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i use kbin because I don't like lemmy's devs 🙃
bonus points that it actually deletes things
Do you think kbin is just reaching into other servers and pulling the bytes off the disk? You can't guarantee anything is deleted in a federated system, other servers can just ignore your delete request. So this makes no difference.
And it breaks easily. I still can see several posts on my private instance that have been deleted. The delete command never made it to my server for any number of reasons. As some posts never make it to my instance either. I guess in the long term some kind of delivery queue and guarantee would be nice.
This is being naive. Don't trust a server you don't run yourself.