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elbowmacaroni Jun 19, 2023

Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you?

Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? - Beehaw

>>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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Retronautickz Jun 20, 2023

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:

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.

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KitemanHellYeah Jun 20, 2023

In general I think we should go back to separating personal identities from internet identities on discussion forums like these. There are already platforms for promoting your personal identity that are way better than these types of forums

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Retronautickz Jun 20, 2023

I completely agree. I'd add that. in general I wouldn't put any type of personal information on the internet, no social media site, is really private.

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wewbull Jun 23, 2023

I was rather peeved I had to give an email to create an account on Lemmy. It shouldn't be needed.

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fedi

Unfortunately there has been a wave of fake accounts being created on lemmy. Requiring email on signup is one way to try to prevent this from happening.