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Is there any truth to this?
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What does post/comment permanency have to do with privacy? The linked post is an opinion, with no facts backing up their extreme claims.
It's true that if you delete a comment, your username remains, but is that a matter of privacy? Was it acceptably private before deletion? Why does that change afterwards?
I'm extremely skeptical of the poster sharing partial truths with opinion and no sources.
Edit: I read some of the comments. Poor jorgesumle4, yeesh!
Edit2: and won't be going anywhere near raddle, either. Oof! "My echo chamber isn't echoing right! I must now yell and spew some ad hominem hate! Ahh, much better."
Edit3: To @orientalsniper@lemmy.world, I would say your OP question, "is there truth to this?" is being asked about an opinion. Can opinion be true or false? I don't really understand the premise. If you're posting on the public internet, that's not private. Full stop. Any platform on the public internet, no matter how you can or cannot delete your contributions, is not private.
Some folks consider "the right to be forgotten" to be a privacy right.
There are cases where this makes sense. For instance, suppose you're a schoolteacher in Florida today. But a dozen years ago, you were in college and you did a drag performance. Today, the fascist DeSantis regime might label you a "groomer" and fire you or even prosecute you. A dozen years ago, you felt okay putting a video of your drag performance on YouTube ... but today you would really like to make sure that the most frothingly fascist parent of your students could not find that video.
It's easy to say "well, the problem is that Florida has fascists in charge" but that doesn't help the schoolteacher.
To be clear: This is not an easy issue. All quick snappy answers are wrong.
I feel you. Thanks for the comment. "Right to be Forgotten" was the phrase I needed to see for that to click.
I think your analogy is off the mark only in that, in the situation you describe in the lemmy platform, the teacher's video disappears, but everyone can still see that they posted something.
I do hope that in time, lemmy devs remove the username next to deleted posts.
As I said to OP in another comment, lemmy gets a lot right when it comes to privacy, and much more right than most social media platforms. For me, I won't let perfect be the enemy of good.