159

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

submitted 1 year ago by elbowmacaroni@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

281 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] knova@links.dartboard.social 39 points 1 year ago

BTW, the OP on Raddle was spamming that message around Reddit last week and directing people to Raddle. I think he has a bone to pick with the developers' politics more than anything.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

That’s probably because the Lemmy dev’s “politics” are beliefs that have no place in a civilized society. Luckily, Lemmy itself and the fediverse writ large don’t have any relationship to those beliefs.

[-] cavemeat@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

True, and I agree. Thing is, I don't think the raddle base is willing to look past that, or consider how federation makes the dev's beliefs largely meaningless outside of the server he moderates.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

100% agree

It's funny, they commenter in that chain are calling out Lemmy users for being blind to dev-related issues, but they demonstrate a strong myopic slant on their own assessment of the landscape.