Warning: Lemmy doesn't care about your privacy, everything is tracked and stored forever, even if you delete it
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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
  • philpo@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes and no. The Web achieve and other data scrubbers are seen differently here as the data collection is done involuntarily. E g. your website will get crawled by the Web Achieve if you want it or not and it is doing it by using the same method a intended user does.

    This cannot be applied to a federated instance where content is voluntarily transfered via the Federation interface. This makes the first data collection operator liable for securing the rights of the data owner and to get a processing agreement with the data processing operator that it transfers data to.