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@lemmy Hi I am planning on joining Lemmy however I was reading about some privacy issues with the platform. I am going to share some of them and what do you think about it? (fosstodon.org)

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@lemmy Hi I am planning on joining Lemmy however I was reading about some privacy issues with the platform. I am going to share some of them and what do you think about it?

--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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.one/post/43976?scrollToComments=true

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2977#issuecomment-1584337286

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tldr, it's actually more private than Reddit in most ways