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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] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Use a pseudonym that you don’t use anywhere else and don’t dox yourself in your posts or comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

a good habit is also regularly abandoning/deleting an account and starting from scratch. I went thru 6 reddit accounts over my 13 years there

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

Same here. I had used reddit since 2010 and must have had close to a dozen accounts. I didn’t like too much info piling up under any one account. And I used a local city subreddit a lot.

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

same. it also helped to separate interests. each hobby/interest would get a different account, local stuff another account, maybe an "engage in politics" account or three (so I can log off and not get hateful replies at random hours of the day)

If I stick around I figure I'll do the same with lemmy. So far local content, angry debate, and niche hobbies haven't been a 'problem'.

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

That's a great idea

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

“Average user.” Think Reddit, Facebook, having communities. I’m old enough that I was a first gen internet user. Like slow-ass 56k, and bbs in terminal and Apple with floppy floppies and point/click before Gates did his hoodoo.