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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 1 year ago

My rule is, never post anything you wouldn't mind the media tracing back to you IRL and then making the top story of the day in your country.

So don't live, basically.
Or you can just maintain anonymity as best as you reasonably can and hope no one goes out of their way to identify you or the account(s). Making a new account after awhile is a safe practice. The goal is to decrease the likelihood of undesirable things, not make them impossible.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Odd response, you can still “live” without documenting your activities. Were people not living pre-Facebook/Instagram?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

...Are we talking posting things anonymously or posting things with your irl name and photo?

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