What is the fh did I just read

  • 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.

    • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Agreed with everything you said. The anti-Lemmy posts over there are starting to smell like astroturf. Although who knows, a lot of it follows similar anti-Mastodon posts I’ve also read there, so either some people really dislike federated social media that much or Twitter astroturfers were busy on Reddit after the blue bird was “stunned” by Elon.

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      1 year ago

      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.

        • Parsnip8904@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          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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      1 year ago

      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.

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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.

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      1 year ago

      I’m starting to think it’s propaganda sponsored by reddit, hoping to scare people out of leaving.

      If so, that would be rich. Reddit has been drawing fire for actively “un-deleting” content.