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Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wait, I thought your instance will copy the media as well? For example, the image from this kbin post is also hosted by your instance here: https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/a52b7c5e-2dcf-4864-b737-33228fb565b0.png