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Lemmy, privacy and potential GDPR violations (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Messages are never deleted, only hidden, a GDPR violation

This is partly true. Messages are not really deleted until you delete your account.

Deleted usernames are also not deleted, only hidden, same thing

This is true

Stuff remains on federated servers even if you delete it

If everything works according to plan it should be gone, though there might be cases, where some instances don't update.

These question were also answered in this github issue.

EDIT: Imho this should be changed. At least the first two points. It does not need to be 100% foolproof on other instances, as they may be down when the deletion happens, but I think that the instance, which hosts the content should NOT have the content after deletion. Another idea would be to edit comments / posts to just say "[removed]".