I’m mostly confused by a lot of the privacy talk, personally. If you post something on a public forum there practically cannot be a guarantee of deletion.

My concerns with privacy are abusive trackers scraping data like whati I’m personally looking at, how long I look at posts, what times of day and background ad tracking that for far beyond even that.

Sure, people can use the things I’ve consented to posting online to do market research or whatever. But that’s not something that can be practically stopped without end to ende encryption and then that’s just… A matrix? To me it feels like a lot of the privacy complaints have revolved around wanting a social media to do something entirely removed from what a public facing social media even is at a core level.

I’m interested to hear peoples thoughts on improving the privacy, but I really do think there is a lot going into this expectation of deletion that isn’t very practical when there are way more pressing issues about privacy violations.

edit: an analogy, if I publish a book, and later decide I want to fully retract the book, in within my rights to request that. But there is no practical reason for me to expect everyone to follow through, or that my publisher be required to hunt down every last copy and destroy them. On the other hand, I’m a lot more concerned about someone spying on my every move while I’m writing the book, doing research, and discussing it privately. Lemmy, to my knowledge, doesn’t do the latter, but does act as a publisher letting people know they should destroy the book.