What is the fh did I just read
You might want to put a note about the sensationalist title, so that people don’t just read the headline and come away with the wrong idea.
There’s really no other way to implement this sort of a network. Once someone federates your messages, they can disconnect their server and keep your message forever. It doesn’t matter what sort of protocol you put in to try to “securely redact” messages after the fact, there is still an edge case that the information that you make publicly available is available for eternity. If not by Lemmy itself, then by web scrapers, search engines, archives etc.
Cycle through generic accounts and don’t put PII up. That’s the best you can do with this sort of social media. If you want more privacy you need to take it to a non-public space, like chat rooms.
I’ve seen this “deletion is not guaranteed on lemmy” warning shouted loudly and often by a few individuals over the past month or two, mostly on reddit. It makes no sense in context, because deletion is not guaranteed on reddit, either. Or on any other public forum.
For the record, lemmy devs addressed it in a discussion here.
I’m starting to think it’s propaganda sponsored by reddit, hoping to scare people out of leaving. A textbook example of FUD.
OK, let’s check the status of that today:
- Point 1 has already been fixed after our insistence, messages will be available for undelete to admins for 30 days then get scrubbed
- Point 2 is true but frankly I don’t see the issue, you’ll see that a person wrote a message they deleted, no exploitable information has been leaked, and if the account is ever deleted even that gets deleted too
- Point 3 is outright false, the moment something is deleted, ActivityPub spreads a delete command to anything federating it
- Point 4 is also false, you can check the source to confirm it, i did
As an aside, the politics of the Lemmy creators are still mentioned a lot, but at this point the tankie population has been pretty much utterly outnumbered due to the Reddit migration, Lemmy has grown from a few hundred people to thousands and is STILL growing, hopefully it’s no longer an issue.
Presumably you can still edit your messages and replace the content via a script like people are doing on reddit?
Until they add a history feature for edits (i’d really appreciate that, actually. I edit my shit all the time just to fix errors, but i know there’s plenty who use the feature maliciously to change how an argument sounded)
And you’re dreaming if you think reddit can’t get whatever you “overwrote” back.
Concur on the edit history feature / log. I’d also support an optional “rollback and lock edits” feature for mods so bad actors couldn’t just edit to seed discord.
I’d support a delete feature for posts, but people do need to understand that content released into the fediverse is out there for good, more or less.
Holy fuck. I’m glad I never heard of or went to Raddle until now. The comments in that thread, including mod comments, are CANCER. There’s one guy who repeatedly tries to correct their falsehoods, but he just gets belittled and called a liar. Fuck that shit.
I certainly don’t like the Raddle community’s reaction to this, however Beehaw’s community has shown somewhat similar reactions to certain topics that have come up. Having some reactionary drama seems unavoidable in any social group. That said, the software that Raddle runs on is pretty sleek. Seems to rival Tildes in quality for a link aggregation and forum software. But it’s inability to federate makes it fundamentally different from lemmy.
It’s ironic that the anarchist devs created a centralized aggregator in Postmill, while the tankie devs who initially made Lemmy, made it a part of the fediverse. I’d honestly expect it to go the other way around.
