originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 months ago
seems weird this expectation of privacy on public sites built for public consumption of public content posted by people publicly.
i mean, i get wanting to control your data. the software i use allows for this ( the 'bins offer a user-level purge).
but privacy? seems weird
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I mean, to have a Lemmy account you already decided to put your trust in total strangers with questionable security credentials.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 months ago
but.. im not using lemmy
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Mastadon works the same way, all ActivityPub services work the same way.
By being Federated that means data is being sent to remote servers. Sometimes that data doesn’t always make it, like a delete request. So someone on their own home-server deletes their post, but on some remote server where that post is cached, it’s not deleted, because the delete request never federated.
This is literally a consequence of how federation works. It’s not a purposeful violation of GDPR.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 months ago
sorry, i was just being snotty.
i know full well and am on the side of pointing out the futility of attempting privacy in a public space.
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You may not be directly using it, but this is part and parcel of the entire point of federated social media. Other software will be accessing the pool.