Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it’s visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit.

  • Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible
  • Deleted account usernames remain visible too
  • Anything remains visible on federated servers!
  • When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server
  • trent
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    42 years ago

    I thought votes didn’t federate yet anyways… but, yes, it is possible, and i can come up off the top of my head with three or four potential implementations.

    • poVoq
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      52 years ago

      Good luck with finding an anonymous system that can not be easily abused.

      • trent
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        32 years ago

        FHE solves that through and through, as has been documented widely, but that’s overengineering when you could just use plain ZKP.
        Zero-knowledge voting is here and has been for a while now.