Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

  • kat@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I wonder how deletion of user data is supposed to work in that regard. Since everything is synced to all federated instances, I guess one would have to file a request for deletion with every instance separately (?)

    • slowcurrent@vlemmy.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I have extensive experience with complying with GDPR and I feel like they wouldn’t care that it is decentralized. They’d go after Lemmy as a whole and anyone involved. Having to request your data wiped from each instance is not something they are going to accept.