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
    • fluffy_birb_01English
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      2 years ago

      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.