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
  • Forcen@lemmy.oneEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    One thing that mastodon does is proxying all the media from the federated servers, lemmy does not do this… (yet)

    For example on this comment page there are 9 domains trying to connect directly to me according to ublock origin. I suggest blocking all third party requests on your instance using ublock origins advanced mode because the website works fine without them, it might be mostly avatars?

    • BitOneZero@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      For example on this comment page there are 9 domains trying to connect directly to me according to ublock origin.

      ublock origin isn’t a firewall. They aren’t connecting inbound to your system, you are loading content from those servers.