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
I don’t even understand why the OP calls this “Mastodon’s” opinion. The link doesn’t go to Mastodon. I think the parent post is being a bit of a troll honestly :( The criticisms at the link don’t make sense, the person posting the link doesn’t seem to think the criticisms are good, and they attribute the criticism to Mastodon while posting “Raddle”. It’s like they’re only doing this to get everybody riled up
i think OP may have mistaken Raddle for a mastodon instance of some kind, idk
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It’s not even a correct point. Deleting your Lemmy account will actually delete all your data. Also, there was a change put through two days ago I think to have individual deleted comments purged after 30 days. Of course, both these features depend on other federated servers to behave properly and honour those requests.
Mastodon is where the link to the raddle article appeared. The post on Mastodon basically said they wouldn’t use Lemmy because of what the article stated.