I’ve been sent this article about privacy on Lemmy and I would like to have more opinions about it.

I come from the Matrix world where there is no history deletion neither but at least everything is encrypted.

Can we hope anything about privacy on Lemmy ?
Especially with all the attention it’s getting right now.

  • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business
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    1 year ago

    It reads like someone has just discovered that if you toss out public data on the public internet via federation it becomes public and out of your direct control.

    That’s how all federated services basically work: once it is relayed to someone else’s server, there’s essentially nothing you can do to force deletion.

    Easy example: if you send me an email, but delete it from your sent messages, did you delete the message I got?