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Lemmy, privacy and potential GDPR violations (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org
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Been just linked to this post, that claims that on Lenny:

  • Messages are never deleted, only hidden, a GDPR violation
  • Deleted usernames are also not deleted, only hidden, same thing
  • Stuff remains on federated servers even if you delete it
  • There's no way to delete yourself from the network if you choose to do so

Gut feeling says none of this is true or is only half truths, but want to be sure before i invest myself heavily on this platform.

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[–] TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Few things:

  1. Federated Protocol essentially offers something similar to Peer-To-Peer communication like Bit Torrent, only that it's a server-to-server communication protocol. You could GDPR the Lemmy servers that are within the EU jurisdiction, but good luck enforcing that outside of EU.
  2. Anything you post in public is PUBLIC, this should be obvious and I honestly advise not to put your real name out there if you're not going to be responsible with your posting or behavior.
  3. Services like Internet Archive exists, so your stuff are going to be saved forever whether you like to or not.

If you're not comfortable with the non-compliance of GDPR on Lemmy Server, then I can suggest two things:

  1. Detach your real life identity from Lemmy and assume everything you do with that service/website is public.
  2. Find other platform that respects GDPR.