Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it’s visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit.
- Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible
- Deleted account usernames remain visible too
- Anything remains visible on federated servers!
- When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server
Use a pseudonym that you don’t use anywhere else and don’t dox yourself in your posts or comments
“Average user.” Think Reddit, Facebook, having communities. I’m old enough that I was a first gen internet user. Like slow-ass 56k, and bbs in terminal and Apple with floppy floppies and point/click before Gates did his hoodoo.
a good habit is also regularly abandoning/deleting an account and starting from scratch. I went thru 6 reddit accounts over my 13 years there
Same here. I had used reddit since 2010 and must have had close to a dozen accounts. I didn’t like too much info piling up under any one account. And I used a local city subreddit a lot.
same. it also helped to separate interests. each hobby/interest would get a different account, local stuff another account, maybe an “engage in politics” account or three (so I can log off and not get hateful replies at random hours of the day)
If I stick around I figure I’ll do the same with lemmy. So far local content, angry debate, and niche hobbies haven’t been a ‘problem’.
That’s a great idea