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

submitted 1 year ago by elbowmacaroni to c/technology

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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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[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume anything I post online to remain there forever anyways. That's why I regularly make a new account so atleast everything isn't behind one username

[–] mainfrog 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is newish software. I assume everyone operates in the worst-case scenario too - but that doesn't mean we should code with the worst-case scenario for privacy as some goal or built-in concession.