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Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whether is Lemmy, federated, corporate owned, or even your own private site - nothing you put on the internet is ever truly private. If you have a public profile someone can access it and copy it.

The only things I'll say that I have an expectation of privacy is health related, everything else I fully expect someone else to read, copy, and multiply.

I think there should be, but I never expect there to be. Did people's parents not teach them about putting things on the internet they didn't want shared?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Did people's parents not teach them about putting things on the internet they didn't want shared?

They used to, then social media became a thing and they stopped. Suddenly, it was normal to put your entire life up online for other people to see, and if you didn't feel comfortable doing that you were the weird one.

My rule is, never post anything you wouldn't mind the media tracing back to you IRL and then making the top story of the day in your country. Because, while rare, that does occasionally happen!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My rule is, never post anything you wouldn't mind the media tracing back to you IRL and then making the top story of the day in your country.

So don't live, basically.
Or you can just maintain anonymity as best as you reasonably can and hope no one goes out of their way to identify you or the account(s). Making a new account after awhile is a safe practice. The goal is to decrease the likelihood of undesirable things, not make them impossible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Odd response, you can still “live” without documenting your activities. Were people not living pre-Facebook/Instagram?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

...Are we talking posting things anonymously or posting things with your irl name and photo?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Probably because it became very profitable to let everyone do that 😔