This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    1 year ago

    There a different levels of personal data but a unique identifier for a user is one of them because it allows linking information together about a single person, and from there you can try to identify the real person. So an option would be to overwrite all the occurrences of this identifier with random data so you can’t link data together anymore, as long as it’s not also personal data.

    • Derin@lemmy.beru.co
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      1 year ago

      Sure, but you’d still have to delete all their written posts - which is really what all this is about.

      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        You actually would not. The content of the post can stay but the username/identifier has to be removed. Written text is not PII to my knowledge and every social platforms I’ve actively used only delete the identifier (Reddit, GitHub).

        • Umbrias@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          Written content can contain pii, but it’s rarer. Written content isn’t, by default, pii, but if someone tells anything reasonably pii the entire text can be consisted pii even when anonymized.

          • interolivary@beehaw.org
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            1 year ago

            Yeah as someone who had to deal with GDPR in a professional capacity, it’s probably better to just assume that content written by users contains PII since you really have no way of telling whether it does or doesn’t.

            Naturally you can just ignore that and leave the content as-is, but then you run the risk of some data protection authority ruining your day.