@lemmy Hi I am planning on joining Lemmy however I was reading about some privacy issues with the platform. I am going to share some of them and what do you think about it?
--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
By that logic, there’s no point in ever deleting anything online, so why even bother with hiding them? Just leave everything up there forever, whether the person who wrote it still wants it to be there or not.
Also, not everyone has the time, programming skills and resources to just fork a project, never mind run their own server. That’s not a constructive approach to a “this feature ought to work better” discussion.