I’ve been sent this article about privacy on Lemmy and I would like to have more opinions about it.

I come from the Matrix world where there is no history deletion neither but at least everything is encrypted.

Can we hope anything about privacy on Lemmy ?
Especially with all the attention it’s getting right now.

  • ProfessorFlaw
    2•1 year ago

    Might sound dumb, but why privacy? All you do here is post publicly random cat photos, it isnt a messenger where you have private conversations.

    • BombOmOm
      0•1 year ago

      Seriously. If you are posting private information on any forum, you are doing it wrong. It doesn’t matter if that is Twitter, a Lemmy, or a BBS. If it is private information, don’t post it publicly.

      Also note with private information, assume someone will comb through all of your posts. Is the sum total of what you have released enough to ID you? One post may say what state you live in, another might say you find it funny your city is a name of a founding father, another might say you live a half mile from school and walk, etc, etc. Don’t release data points that when summed can ID you.