Warning: Lemmy (federated reddit clone) doesn’t care about your privacy, everything is tracked and stored forever, even if you delete it

  • whiny9130@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    In person conversation and online conversation are very different. Just like the mechanics of picking a lock and hacking computers in another country are very different.

    Online conversations can be unintentionally published with mistakes (even the best of us make typos or post to the wrong chat), and the blast radius is much worse.

    Online conversations are much easier to misinterpret due to lost context.

    If it’s a public figure or a company doing something shady, yes, it’ll end up on Internet archive.

    If a user wants to remove their selfie; you let them, because it’s their content.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Hmm, I agree in principle with your last sentence, but not sure how it works.

      People can “edit” their posts on here, but I do wonder how that works in decentralized way since from what I understand, the ActivityPub protocol (which I think all Fediverse tech is based off (??) ) is similar to email - in the sense that I’ve already sent you the email with my selfie on it, and I can only request in a follow up email that you delete it.

      • kiwi@kale.social
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        1 year ago

        I think that’s right. A request for deletion gets made and it’s up to each server to decide if they will honor it.