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Will people provide tools to decrease digital footprint for users on Lemmy instances ? (lemmy.ml)
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Some time ago there was dismay on Mastodon (and Pleroma ?) instances about data scraping. Before that happened there were privacy concerned people automatically deleting their own toots, limiting them for example to the latest toots for thirty days. With Lemmy things are different since Lemmy is a link aggregator rather than micro blogging, and Mastodon has boost option (Called replay with Pleroma ?). However deleting your older comments (but not posts) automatically would be really nice for privacy reasons.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

agreed, when we share something publicly that can be accessed by anyone there's not much room for privacy. the best one could ask is having some anonimity so no no one can link the posts to your real identity.