I’d like to invite you all to share your thoughts and ideas about Lemmy. This feedback thread is a great place to do that, as it allows for easier discussions than Github thanks to the tree-like comment structure. This is also where the community is at.
Here’s how you can participate:
- Post one top-level comment per complaint or suggestion about Lemmy.
- Reply to comments with your own ideas or links to Github issues related to the complaints.
- Be specific and constructive. Avoid vague wishes and focus on specific issues that can be fixed.
- This thread is a chance for us to not only identify the biggest pain points but also work together to find the best solutions.
By creating this periodic post, we can:
- Track progress on issues raised in previous threads.
- See how many issues have been resolved over time.
- Gauge whether the developers are responsive to user feedback.
Your input may be valuable in helping prioritize development efforts and ensuring that Lemmy continues to meet the needs of its community. Let’s work together to make Lemmy even better!
Lemmy’s approach to privacy is fundamentally flawed compared to other social media platforms. All your posts are permanently public under your profile, with no option to restrict visibility. This means anyone can see your outdated and potentially cringe-worthy posts at any time, and tech companies could likely de-anonymize your profile by analyzing the topics you post about. The open profile design only serves to enable stalking and doesn’t contribute anything practical to the site.
That’s… the point?
Lemmy privacy isn’t a joke, because there isn’t any. It’s 100% public by design.
If you want to keep something private, don’t post it publicly online.
…It’s literally a public communication network? The point is that what you post is seen.
If you want private there’s Signal, Jabber, etc. Wholly different purposes.
That’s by design though. There’s no way to have a federated system and ensure that everything deletes it.
This is a valid complaint in an ideal world, but in our current world this happens with every other site that has the same discussion model as lemmy. Your posts are not gone when you delete them on reddit. Reddit has a ton of mirrors and reddit themselves will never delete your post.
Personally I’d rather see lemmy grow as it is rather than die try the extremely tough task of building a good federated privacy protocol. The privacy on lemmy comes from being able to create an account while providing no info, being able to access from TOR. People seeing your public posts is debatably even a privacy issue.
This is typical of forum software. Some have access controls, but they’re at the admin/moderator level.