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
  • Retronautickz@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The illusion of Privacy is Mastodon (or social media in general)

    There’s a reason why when you go to “private mentions” on Mastodon, this appears:

    Private mentions. Post on mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted.Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon

    While yes, we should be able to delete our content if we want, but it’s a bit naive to think there could be true privacy in any decentralised social media platform.

    There’s a reason why one of the think people tell you when you come to the fediverse is not to share personal and sensible information.

    The only decentralised social media that has some level of privacy is Matrix, and that’s why it has it’s own protocol and only federates within/between its own servers.