I saw a comment somewhere saying the title and had links but I lost the comment now. One of the links was going to raddle.me which is a Reddit like site

    • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.world
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      I don’t understand this question. This is a public platform, there are no secret messages or info. What do you mean by privacy? Hide what from whom?

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        Look at my other comment with the link. It’s saying that even if you delete your account the only thing that happens is that you can’t access it anymore but every comment and data is still in the database

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          What about The Internet Archive? Search engines cache? Copies made by other people? etc.

          This is a public platform; don’t share things you don’t want to be shared. You can’t truly expect anything being deleted forever everywhere.

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            I mean, we can absolutely want that. And data farming is bad. Just objectively. Having a conversation in a public area irl isn’t consent to being recorded (not that it is always illegal to do so). And Why should it be on the internet? If the delete option doesn’t actually delete anything, it should clearly reflect that. I have no idea why you would argue against user control of their data.

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            Some companies have to enforce retention policies for business and/or legal reasons, which means they actually have to delete your data if they say they will.

            Some sites only “soft” delete things because it’s simply easier and cheaper.

            Regardless, I can’t reiterate what you said enough:

            It’s why they say everything is permanent on the internet.

            Nobody should ever once in their life assume that data they post online will be discarded, ever. Maybe it will, but never assume it will. Even if you run the server yourself and delete the data files on your server and send the hard disks into the sun, if the data was ever accessed, you should treat it as if it’s been captured and retained somewhere.

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          If you don’t want it there don’t post it. The internet is scraped and copied and backed up. You can ask for it to be deleted but the company likely doesn’t own every copy.

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          Okay but you’re commenting on a public forum, and didn’t give anyone your name or any other PII when you signed up? Why are you worried about not being able to delete the things you’re posting anonymously anyway?

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            I never said I was worried. It’s just the general idea when actual companies usually have a data deletion policy in place. Having a data retention policy in place is usually a good look

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      Yes. Instances can be hosted by anyone and the devs don’t have access to data on instances they don’t run.