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While it'll be on an instance-by-instance basis for use of your data, Lemmy and kbin both run without clientside Javascript, which eliminates most fingerprinting techniques. Do note, however, that individual instances of Lemmy may have their own modifications to the codebase. SysAdmins could of course implement something like this in their own instances, as well as other features and tweaks. It's not a monolith. But it's definitely more privacy-friendly than Reddit, if that's what we're using as our baseline.
Of course you can always spin your own instance or an instance with friends, that gives you full control of your data and how it's used.
I saw on reddit a post about lemmy tracks and stores everything forever even if you delete it. Is that true?
@whitehouses this is the sort of thing the big tech companies do.... and then they claim that the fediverse sites(lemmy, mastodon etc) do it, in order to scare people from joining the fediverse.
The tracking that facebook, twitter etc do is not the way that fediverse sites operate. It is not a for profit space.
[this is posted from a mastodon account]
The person in the reddit post got it originally from a thread on raddle.