What is the fh did I just read
I’ve seen this “deletion is not guaranteed on lemmy” warning shouted loudly and often by a few individuals over the past month or two, mostly on reddit. It makes no sense in context, because deletion is not guaranteed on reddit, either. Or on any other public forum.
For the record, lemmy devs addressed it in a discussion here.
I’m starting to think it’s propaganda sponsored by reddit, hoping to scare people out of leaving.
Stuff you post in public could end up staying in public forever… It’s like there are consequences for our actions…
When did people forget basic internet safety? ANYTHING you put on the internet could stay there forever.
You’d be surprised by how many people don’t consider this at all before they post stuff online.
Just look at the millions of muppets posting on Facebook.
You’re right. I think a lot of people who didn’t grow up right at the cusp of the internet weren’t actually taught any internet safety.
Rule 1: never tell anyone your ASL, especially location.
Rule 2: No personally identifying details. If you could get doxxed using this information you shouldn’t be putting it online.
Rule 3: Runescape will never ask you for your password
If your starting assumption on the internet is that each keystroke is ephemeral, Lemmy is not the problem.
If that is not your starting assumption, this is not news.
This seems more like something to keep in mind when posting rather than a “DON’T USE LEMMY!!” kind of thing.
Everything I put on Lemmy stays on Lemmy? This article is eye-opening (not).
So, obviously an anti Lemmy bias there, and not entirely true, but there are some aspects of federation it can be dangerous to ignore.
There is a different primary privacy focus here, and it provides an extreme level of privacy but places an extreme level of responsibility on the user for their own privacy, more than most places.
There is a distinction to a potential scrape and a system designed to duplicate, often irreversibly at submit.
There are also other things people are often not aware of and the community is not doing a great job communicating. Admins are not doing a great job of protecting themselves either.
For instance many, still don’t know votes here are entirely public.
If you understand this all and are comfortable, great. Many do not prepare themselves and would engage differently if they had a better understanding.
For a take by someone who is pro-federation but not ignoring these concerns see: https://lemmy.ca/post/948217
OK, let’s check the status of that today:
- Point 1 has already been fixed after our insistence, messages will be available for undelete to admins for 30 days then get scrubbed
- Point 2 is true but frankly I don’t see the issue, you’ll see that a person wrote a message they deleted, no exploitable information has been leaked, and if the account is ever deleted even that gets deleted too
- Point 3 is outright false, the moment something is deleted, ActivityPub spreads a delete command to anything federating it
- Point 4 is also false, you can check the source to confirm it, i did
As an aside, the politics of the Lemmy creators are still mentioned a lot, but at this point the tankie population has been pretty much utterly outnumbered due to the Reddit migration, Lemmy has grown from a few hundred people to thousands and is STILL growing, hopefully it’s no longer an issue.
Is it technically possible to ensure anything is deleted in a distributed system?
“Amazing how many ‘leftists’ are tripping over themselves to give untold power to a literal red fascist.”
I just made the biggest facepalm ever after reading this and decided to close the page, lol.
