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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] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BTW, the OP on Raddle was spamming that message around Reddit last week and directing people to Raddle. I think he has a bone to pick with the developers' politics more than anything.

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

That’s probably because the Lemmy dev’s “politics” are beliefs that have no place in a civilized society. Luckily, Lemmy itself and the fediverse writ large don’t have any relationship to those beliefs.

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

True, and I agree. Thing is, I don't think the raddle base is willing to look past that, or consider how federation makes the dev's beliefs largely meaningless outside of the server he moderates.

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

100% agree

It's funny, they commenter in that chain are calling out Lemmy users for being blind to dev-related issues, but they demonstrate a strong myopic slant on their own assessment of the landscape.