Warning: Lemmy (federated reddit clone) doesn’t care about your privacy, everything is tracked and stored forever, even if you delete it

    • Swintoodles@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I was about to say, it’s the same system Reddit has just about, except instead of a corporation having your data, it’s just some rando with a server.

      I haven’t dug into the Lemmy system at all, but would it not be possible for the server owner or other users to run a lemmy version of reveddit? Might not be a system by default, but I’d assume any system with direct access to the data can copy it over to a 3rd party no problem.

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        1 year ago

        I’m banking that the rando doesn’t have the financial incentive to sell me out.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for posting this update link, nice to see the devs clarifying how stuff works - what they’ve said sounds completely reasonable to me

      TL;DR: Individual post deletion is best-effort while allowing accidental delete actions to be reversed, however full account deletion is more thorough - first overwriting old posts and deleting all your uploaded media from the home instance