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

submitted 1 year 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] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kinda unsurprising as rumors have it that lemmy's developed by pro-China Tankies.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

The developers will freely admit that they are Marxist-Leninists who support China. I don't get why people frame it as a rumor.

That said, that has nothing to do with this. It's just implementation details, and are on the docket to be worked on once the mission-critical stuff is out of the way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That said, anarkiddies rallying against federation and preferring to use a centralized service like raddle is very funny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was thinking that. I can understand disliking lemmy for its developer, but then making it a call against federated media seems strange, as someone who also considers themselves an anarchist.