- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
- fediverse@lemmy.world
TLDR: While Fediverse won’t directly serve you ads, anonymous bad actors other than Meta can save, redistribute, and even dox you for any information you post here. Anything you post here can/will remain forever on some malicious instance that doesn’t honor deletion requests. So be careful!
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Did people forgot that the internet never forgets?
Other platforms just have the illusion of privacy
I think this is so disingenuous. There’s such a huge difference between being actively tracked and monetized in ways that are explicitly hidden from you vs all of your posts being intrinsically public and cached. To act like the first is fine and the second is risky is just big tech propaganda.
That article is pure FUD. No new discoveries and is made to garner clicks.
This is applicable to every community based service. Twitter, Facebook, Discord, Forums, etc.
Like every other service, don’t post personal information about yourself online, and you won’t be doxxed.
You say that but Reddit had unddit
The post title should really be “The Internet is a Privacy Nightmare If You Think You Might One Day Want To Send a Takedown Request to a Malicious Site”.
YSK that deletions are federated just like everything else. If you delete a post on your home instance, that deletion request is sent to all other instances that federated properly/are not malicious, and your post will be deleted from those instances as well.
YSK that images are only ever stored on your home instance. All other instances only link to the image on your home instance. So deleting an image deletes it from the server and breaks the link everywhere.
Wait…the posts i send are “stored” on other instances? Inthought they were stored on just one and just accessed by the others? There shouldbe no need to delete from other instances. Once the post is deleted from ist home instance it wont show up on others anymore (because it was never stored there). Am i misunderstanding this? Like most, im new to Lemmy amd still figuring things out.
Each remote instance stores the posts from every other instance’s communities, from the point at which the first person viewed (…or subscribed to…?) that community on the remote instance. That way the instances are less dependent on each other’s uptime and can optimize their queries, giving a better user experience.
Btw. this also means that there will always be some delay before posts/comments from one instance show up on another.
Anything you post here can/will remain forever on some malicious instance that doesn’t honor deletion requests.
Hilarious, as if microsoft, reddit, facebook, google or any other corp would be any more trustworthy/save or would actually delete anything on request, especially now since they can train their LLMs with the data.
There are laws that you can enforce by suing them. It’s probably not going to be the case here
sueing a big tech company… good luck champ
