I’ve been sent this article about privacy on Lemmy and I would like to have more opinions about it.

I come from the Matrix world where there is no history deletion neither but at least everything is encrypted.

Can we hope anything about privacy on Lemmy ?
Especially with all the attention it’s getting right now.

  • makos@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Since Lemmy is free software, can someone just fork it and change it to be more privacy-focused?

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      1 year ago

      Someone definitely could, but what privacy-oriented features would even be useful on a social media site, aside from encrypted DM’s?

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      1 year ago

      They can; but remember you are posting public information on a public forum. The privacy features are all about what you type or don’t type. Never type private information into a public forum.