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
web content is different from in-person content in the same way picking a lock in person is different from hacking hundreds of thousands of websites.
it’s muuuuuch easier to save a comment forever, compared to an off-hand comment at a bar you weren’t recording to start.
privacy is something no legal system was prepared for understanding, let alone digital privacy or authorship/IP.