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.
Just to add more information or context to your answer, this site exists, so instead of people arguing about “Lemmy sucks on privacy” or “This place is a hell hole for anonymity”, maybe people should rethink about what they’re going to write.
Agreed with everything you said. The anti-Lemmy posts over there are starting to smell like astroturf. Although who knows, a lot of it follows similar anti-Mastodon posts I’ve also read there, so either some people really dislike federated social media that much or Twitter astroturfers were busy on Reddit after the blue bird was “stunned” by Elon.
Reddit is required by EU law to delete all of your data if you ask them to (and you’re an EU citizen). I suspect it’s much harder to do on the fediverse, though in theory they’re subjected to the same law.
But as ono points out, I can screenshot or copy paste whatever I want, what is anyone going to do with that?
GDPR and the right to be forgotten is extremely hard to apply to any federated media, as it applies to the entities where you put the media in question.
It can’t really stop, and it, GDPR and EU, has never pretended it can stop storage of said media. But if you are an entity that is responsible for, and collect that data, then your are responsible for that data.
Federation breaks that model. GDPR works against centralized corporations retaining your data. It will be fun to see what happens the coming decade with these laws.
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.
Just to add more information or context to your answer, this site exists, so instead of people arguing about “Lemmy sucks on privacy” or “This place is a hell hole for anonymity”, maybe people should rethink about what they’re going to write.
Agreed with everything you said. The anti-Lemmy posts over there are starting to smell like astroturf. Although who knows, a lot of it follows similar anti-Mastodon posts I’ve also read there, so either some people really dislike federated social media that much or Twitter astroturfers were busy on Reddit after the blue bird was “stunned” by Elon.
If so, that would be rich. Reddit has been drawing fire for actively “un-deleting” content.
Good link
Reddit is required by EU law to delete all of your data if you ask them to (and you’re an EU citizen). I suspect it’s much harder to do on the fediverse, though in theory they’re subjected to the same law.
Reddit can only delete their own copy, not the copies made by other parties. That’s the reality of public media.
Not in theory, in practice.
But as ono points out, I can screenshot or copy paste whatever I want, what is anyone going to do with that?
GDPR and the right to be forgotten is extremely hard to apply to any federated media, as it applies to the entities where you put the media in question.
It can’t really stop, and it, GDPR and EU, has never pretended it can stop storage of said media. But if you are an entity that is responsible for, and collect that data, then your are responsible for that data.
Federation breaks that model. GDPR works against centralized corporations retaining your data. It will be fun to see what happens the coming decade with these laws.
In regards to your “Deletion is not guaranteed on reddit, either” comment:
Went to delete my account last week. They put me in a password reset loop instead. That’s gotta’ be against GDPR.