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Other people have already commented on how federated social media often requires certain data just for implementations to work and make sense, and there's not much more to add to that.
If you want private, end-to-end-encrypted, decentralized communication, the best modern solution to that is #matrix.
The same "rumors" exist about Matrix. According to some, "a lot of metadata is unencrypted". While somewhat true, there's literally no way to be able to deliver a message from person A to person B without knowing who the message is from and who it's going to, especially on a decentralized platform. Most of the (not E2EE) metadata sent with an event in Matrix needs to be read by the homeserver, and thus can't be E2EE.
This is a link to Raddle.me, what does this have to do with Mastodon?
The stuff listed in OP doesn't really seem like much concern. "What you put on the internet is there forever!" is completely true, and things like this should only make it more concrete that you can't rely on your service provider to delete information somebody else already archived.
With that being said, default privacy settings - at least on Kbin - seem pretty bad.
So just to clarify this point:
Anything remains visible on federated servers!
If I delete a comment on beehaw.org, it doesn't get deleted when accessed from another Lemmy instance that federates with Beehaw?
Am I missing something or isnt it that no matter what Lemmy does all those same problems would still exist, just from the internet archival sites instead. Sure the privacy could be better to deter some of it, but none of those issues are fully solveable so long as thise archival sites run. I guess the media not deleting is likely the biggest thing you could effect that archives would be less likely to store in the first place.
I think this is a feature, well the media aspect anyway. Immutable media. The rest can be developed on.
I’m at a loss. You’re saying that things that you said publicly are private? Or you’re saying that they become private because you delete your account? Assume you dox someone. I need to find out if that happened. As an admin I’d be able to see that
I would need to be able to provide this to authorities if they provided needed legal documentation. Why do you think that privacy dictates you should be able to commit a crime, and get away with it by deleting your account?
Kinda unsurprising as rumors have it that lemmy's developed by pro-China Tankies.
Mastodon should just leave us alone!
Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible
This is a negative behavior by Lemmy, in my opinion. Deleted comments should be purged after some time. Tildes does the same thing - I think with 30 days?
Deleted account usernames remain visible too
These should be replaced with some random string of characters or something like DeleteUser or something.
Anything remains visible on federated servers!
This is just a concession of federation.
When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server
This is an issue, too, in my opinion.