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Warning: Lemmy doesn't care about your privacy, everything is tracked and stored forever, even if you delete it

What is the fh did I just read

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  • If your starting assumption on the internet is that each keystroke is ephemeral, Lemmy is not the problem.

    If that is not your starting assumption, this is not news.

  • This seems more like something to keep in mind when posting rather than a "DON'T USE LEMMY!!" kind of thing.

  • And this is different from everywhere and anywhere else.... how?

    Edit: No, seriously, this is meant to be a public square where people can talk freely.

    What part of "public" do people not understand?

  • You might want to put a note about the sensationalist title, so that people don't just read the headline and come away with the wrong idea.

    There's really no other way to implement this sort of a network. Once someone federates your messages, they can disconnect their server and keep your message forever. It doesn't matter what sort of protocol you put in to try to "securely redact" messages after the fact, there is still an edge case that the information that you make publicly available is available for eternity. If not by Lemmy itself, then by web scrapers, search engines, archives etc.

    Cycle through generic accounts and don't put PII up. That's the best you can do with this sort of social media. If you want more privacy you need to take it to a non-public space, like chat rooms.

  • "Amazing how many 'leftists' are tripping over themselves to give untold power to a literal red fascist."

    I just made the biggest facepalm ever after reading this and decided to close the page, lol.

  • Oh no, the email I sent to someone didn't get removed from their inbox after I deleted it from mine!

    Oh jeez, the post I made on a public access fourm can be read by some dude!

    I find raddle so god damn boring. No app, the website is almost too plain to use, no third party API to do anything, and it also doesn't remove EXIF data if you post something, on a site that "cares" about privacy.

    Seeing as Ziq literally doesn't care if Raddle dies or not, it's not a loss on my end either. https://raddle.me/f/lobby/162409/if-raddle-goes-down-or-ziq-turns-tankie-for-whatever-reason

  • Presumably you can still edit your messages and replace the content via a script like people are doing on reddit?

    • Until they add a history feature for edits (i'd really appreciate that, actually. I edit my shit all the time just to fix errors, but i know there's plenty who use the feature maliciously to change how an argument sounded)

      And you're dreaming if you think reddit can't get whatever you "overwrote" back.

      • Concur on the edit history feature / log. I'd also support an optional "rollback and lock edits" feature for mods so bad actors couldn't just edit to seed discord.

        I'd support a delete feature for posts, but people do need to understand that content released into the fediverse is out there for good, more or less.

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