Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.
Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.
The difference is that Reddit doesn’t actively push those comments out to those archives, they’re scraped. ActivityPub, on the other hand, is push based; unless the server chooses to push your activity objects, other ActivityPub servers wouldn’t know about what you’re saying.
Someone could scrape the Fediverse the same way they do Reddit (although by design Mastodon is a lot harder to scrape than Lemmy so there are differences in what content would be archived), but for basic Fediverse operation, servers must make an active decision to send information out to other servers.
The fact most communities are off-server should help (because the user is actively deciding to publish information on another server that’s not in the home server’s jurisdiction) but when it comes to letting foreign servers subscribe to communities, I’m not sure if Lemmy servers can use the same defence. After all, ActivityPub is designed to have the ability do deny subscriptions.
That difference doesn’t make a difference to the point I was explaining. It doesn’t matter how or why those public posts are being replicated into archives from which deletion will be difficult or impossible. All that matters is that it is getting replicated.