Make it the reddit way; edit to empty, then delete.
Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
the fediverse is incredibly public.
its like having your own little radio station broadcasting into the void. once those waves hit the air you cant take it back.
deletes/edits are niceties... but the fact is you put it on the fediverse and everyone else gets to decide what to do with it.
Can't stop the signal, Mal.
Yep. When federating with so many instances, nothing is truly deleted unless every single instance honors its removal. That’s just the reality. The nice thing is that as an instance owner, I can see the mod log of everything from the places I federate with. So admins at least have a point of reference to work together. I also have the ability to restore comments and things that were deleted. I’ve never used it because I prefer to stay in sync with everyone else, but I’m 1 person. There are many instances and mine is microscopic.
BTW, how do yachts taste?
EDIT: Ok, what I wanted you to respond was something like: "The yachts themselves are nothing more than shiny floaty slow-moving food tins that, when gently pried open, are often found to contain many delectably rich (in more ways that one) juicy humans with ketamine-spiced blood, chomp."
This isn’t particular to one Lemmy instance, nor even to Lemmy, but to ActivityPub as a whole and federated architectures in general.
This is not a private platform; it’s a public, pseudonymous one. Any person or web scraper, including the Internet Archive, can see all posts and comments.
It is social media, with posts visible to the public.
A great policy is to only post things you wouldn't mind being read out loud in a court room with your whole family present.
Shi, how do I set account to "read-only"?
Easy! Just don't log in! It's all public, so you don't need an account for anything. The loss of up/down voting is offset by the number of comments that will not later be used by the FBI to convict you of thoughtcrime.
Well, the reason I got an in the first place, when I saw US News & Politics. I knew, if I had an account, I could block that. If I log out… I don't want to go back to unfiltered. Imagine all the US that would rule my feed…
OK, fair enough.
When posting or saying something in public, there's no way to retract it.
There's no difference from posting something on "the Fediverse" or Reddit. Just because you delete your post, does not guarantee that it's gone. Reddit most likely keep a copy of it anyway and there's sites that save everything that's posted on Reddit. so the "issue" is not exclusive to Lemmy.
What you want to aim for is anonymity.
You can never be 100% sure. Not in the Fediverse, in Reddit, in YouTube, nowhere in the Internet.
Always think twice before posting. The moment it is out there, consider it unforgettable.
In general, you should treat anything you post on any social media like an op ed in a newspaper. Once it prints, there's no taking it back.
That's the downside, if you want to call it that, of one entity not having control of everything. If there's something you want removed, you have to talk with everyone to remove it.
However, in conventional social media what's to stop anyone from archiving it, taking screenshot, an AI scraping it while it's available or just someone remembering it? Reddit etc. can hide/obfuscate stuff but you can presume it's not really gone.
So as I've said in similar threads, in terms of failure modes, Lemmy leans towards preventing censorship over trying to be private or have full control over content. "Perfect" privacy/ability to remove would require an invasive level of access to other people's servers and devices that wouldn't be appropriate.
Yeah, it's a huge vulnerability. Even when you do delete something, you can still see that something was posted.