Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

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PSA: Lemmy keeps your deleted content by design (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago by lo________________ol@lemmy.one to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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From Lemmy documentation:

We don't delete anything from our database, just hide it from users. Deleted or removed Communities/Posts/Comments have a "restore" button.

But don't take my word for it. Try it out yourself. You can make a comment, delete the comment (your username appears to remain) and then restore its content.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Besides purging your data (we mention how to do this below), we also have an open-source codebase, so you can verify that the actions are actually deleting your data. I could link the source code for that if you like.

Reddit does not have this. When they tell you they deleted your data, its a "just trust us" from an extremely untrustworthy company.