MegReally annoying that the rust threadiverse server is the one with the problematic authors :/
Hopefully a well-established fork comes along to avoid creating yet another awful BDFL situation.
Jules Enriquez@megmac Also apparently #lemmy is less privacy-safe than even reddit:
https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-about-your-privacy-everything-is
People are seemingly catching on though and shifting towards #kbin, but unfortunately it's still in early beta and has more technical problems yet to be solved.
@win8linux I mean, I saw this and I think it's probably not really malicious -- these are just kind of.. fedi problems? I've had boosts go around for days after I delete the original post on mastodon. Distributed deletion is legit a hard problem, and "admins can see your data" is tautological on any website, fedi or not.
I would be pretty shocked if kbin didn't have the same problems. I know for a fact a lot of major forum software also (at least in the past has) never really deletes things, especially for moderator actions because admins usually don't want to "be goldfish" about user abuse.
That said, I've been out of the social media/forum software game for a long time and maybe GDPR has changed that some.
@megmac Fair, however that thread also talks about a Lemmy dev not just being a tankie but an outright Nazbol too. 😬
@win8linux oh yeah for sure, THAT stuff is important, and putting your data in the hands of questionable people is bad profit motive or no.
I just.. really don't want another round of people expecting the impossible like they did in the big twitter waves where suddenly for the first time in 40 years of the public internet people as a group got really seriously concerned about (small) site admins reading their DMs.
@megmac Agreed and the more pressing matter is having people like that becoming leading figures in the Fediverse. If folks had problems with Eugen, then that Lemmy dev is even worse by a long shot.
KaldoThen talk about that specifically, the privacy argument seems to be kinda irrelevant in the grand scheme. We've known for years that anything posted online can be scraped or archived by 3rd parties and get out of your control, fediverse adds nothing new to the discussion in that regard
schwa@megmac
@win8linux just wanted to corroborate, that distributed deletion really is a big problem. And, ultimately, you're trusting admins to do the right thing.
At least, that's my understanding of the current state of affairs. Maybe something has happened as of late.