My account is 16+ year old and has 300 k combined karma. I will be sure to contact my data protection officer to complain. Reddit needs an audit to document they wipe the db properly, and the data is gone from backups. Not just my data, anything they got on me.
You can do both. Large gateways likely run custom code. I know pinning services do.
It is illegal under the EU law.
Luckily GDPR deletion requests don't care about how they are implemented. And failures to comply en masse tends to get really expensive.
Time for a massive fine from the EU. Something large enough to bankrupt them.
It's not an anonymity network, just autorouted overlay (but can do L2 eventually) IPv6-only user-side encrypted decentralized network with explicit peering. You can run i2p over it as well as anything else as long it can do IPv6-only.
My first Lemmy account is now almost 4 years old. Only now has latest egress wave reached criticality. Lemmy is still very much work in progress and if you can run your own instance, you should.
My experience, based on fringe, very technical communites differs somewhat. But you can only lead horses to water, not make them drink.
We don't care about most users, if they insist to ignore the fire alarms.
I haven't bothered with approval and installed an illegal 1.6 kWp system, and illegally (but safely) have the meter running backwards some of the time. Averaging 6 kWh/day so far. So make about half of the electricity I consume in a year.
I will probably add some storage next year, or so.
The quality of specific communities and the platform in general has been falling for years. This is what made me progressively disengage: stop modding, drop communities, stop posting and voting. At the end it became a read-mostly platform for niche interests. As to the strange comments: abot 10 k ChatGPT bots have been banned from Reddit recently.