That’s by design though. There’s no way to have a federated system and ensure that everything deletes it.
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PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Lemmy’s privacy is a joke compared to other social media since all your posts are permanently public under your profile with no option to restrict visibility, meaning not only can anyone see your outdated cringe-worthy posts anytime, but any tech company could probably de-anonymize your profile just by looking at the topics you post in.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Auth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is a valid complaint in an ideal world, but in our current world this happens with every other site that has the same discussion model as lemmy. Your posts are not gone when you delete them on reddit. Reddit has a ton of mirrors and reddit themselves will never delete your post.
Personally I’d rather see lemmy grow as it is rather than die try the extremely tough task of building a good federated privacy protocol. The privacy on lemmy comes from being able to create an account while providing no info, being able to access from TOR. People seeing your public posts is debatably even a privacy issue.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is typical of forum software. Some have access controls, but they’re at the admin/moderator level.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
That’s… the point?
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
…It’s literally a public communication network? The point is that what you post is seen.
If you want private there’s Signal, Jabber, etc. Wholly different purposes.
Steve@communick.news 1 week ago
Lemmy privacy isn’t a joke, because there isn’t any. It’s 100% public by design.
If you want to keep something private, don’t post it publicly online.