What is the fh did I just read

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • jherazob@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    OK, let’s check the status of that today:

    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.

  • watson387@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

      • frostycakes@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        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.

  • sinnerdotbin@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    So, obviously an anti Lemmy bias there, and not entirely true, but there are some aspects of federation it can be dangerous to ignore.

    There is a different primary privacy focus here, and it provides an extreme level of privacy but places an extreme level of responsibility on the user for their own privacy, more than most places.

    There is a distinction to a potential scrape and a system designed to duplicate, often irreversibly at submit.

    There are also other things people are often not aware of and the community is not doing a great job communicating. Admins are not doing a great job of protecting themselves either.

    For instance many, still don’t know votes here are entirely public.

    If you understand this all and are comfortable, great. Many do not prepare themselves and would engage differently if they had a better understanding.

    For a take by someone who is pro-federation but not ignoring these concerns see: https://lemmy.ca/post/948217

  • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
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    And this is different from everywhere and anywhere else… how?

    Edit: No, seriously, this is meant to be a public square where people can talk freely.

    What part of “public” do people not understand?

  • ono@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      Just to add more information or context to your answer, this site exists, so instead of people arguing about “Lemmy sucks on privacy” or “This place is a hell hole for anonymity”, maybe people should rethink about what they’re going to write.

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          I would be curious to know more. As far as I am aware, what lemmy does differently is that it still shows username when you delete a comment, and lets you restore your comments until you delete your account. If you delete your account everything is deleted. That isn’t the normal policy but it’s better than reddit’s where the site owners can unilaterally decide to restore content users deleted.

    • Silejonu@kbin.social
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      Reddit is required by EU law to delete all of your data if you ask them to (and you’re an EU citizen). I suspect it’s much harder to do on the fediverse, though in theory they’re subjected to the same law.

      • ono@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Reddit can only delete their own copy, not the copies made by other parties. That’s the reality of public media.

    • Mrrdrr@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Maybe i shouldn’t use my real-life name anymore. Oh, wait. That’s a nickname.

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    1 year ago

    Presumably you can still edit your messages and replace the content via a script like people are doing on reddit?

    • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Melpomene@kbin.social
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        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.