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Are users data protected on the fediverse? (feddit.it)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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In other words, can any user delete its data on its will and is there something that will remove its data from all the connected activitypub services? I believe this should actually be a basic feature and pretty much a requirement.

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Basically, the right to be forgotten? Afaik, on Reddit you have scripts to erase all message and rewrite/redact them with nonsense.

I assume something similar may exist for Lemmy, Piefed, etc.

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    I believed we were better than Reddit.. I truly believe this should be a BASIC feature. On Reddit you have to manually delete every single post, if you forget to do that basically your entire posts and comments history will be online forever..

    I know there's still internet archive ecc ecc ecc, but still I believe this should just be an activitypub feature, not something to be managed by single platforms.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Asking to delete data that you published on the public internet is the same as asking for water to be not wet.

    Don't fall for the illusion of privacy that the proprietary networks give you: there are people that copy data from reddit just for the fun of it. Always assume that anything you publish online is publicly available.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It is a basic feature and it does work. Except in rare cases.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    "it works when everyone behaves well" is not the same as being protected.

    It doesn't even take a malicious actor: I am working on a local-first browser extension that is very aggressive about caching content in the database. There is no "please delete this data" for an extension. You of all people should not be making claims about privacy that you know you can not guarantee.

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