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jointhefediverse.net seems to be a commonly linked resource for directing people to join the Fediverse.

Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives. Their GitHub README explains why.

Previous relevant discussion: https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 19 points 18 hours ago (11 children)

What is the issue with user privacy? These do not sound like valid concerns to me.

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 10 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

This is all quite old drama, and the issue itself is fixed now, but at one point someone kicked off about how if you uploaded a picture to Lemmy, there was no easy way to delete it (you could delete your post, but the image would still be there at whatever URL was created for it, and it wasn't even that easy for admins to find and remove it) - so I'm guessing that it stems from that.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Its older than that, and still ongoing. The devs doubled down on how GDPR (and user data privacy rights in general) do not matter to them

[–] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Source? I did a cursory search for "GDPR" on the GitHub issues and can't find anything like that.

Anyway, this seems to be their more recent stance:

For the future, any GDPR compliance advice needs to come from a lawyer, not from random non-lawyers interpreting what they think is correct.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4540#issuecomment-2018920191

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

That's pretty much it

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