I didn’t say otherwise. If anything, considering it’s 4chan we’re talking about, I expect it to be malicious.
Insomniac code gorilla. I help maintain lemmy-ui and, to a lesser extent, Lemmy’s backend.
I didn’t say otherwise. If anything, considering it’s 4chan we’re talking about, I expect it to be malicious.
The only PII the software itself stores are usernames, bcrypt hashes of passwords, JWT session tokens and, if the admin requires it or the user gives it voluntarily, emails. With this in mind, there are still important caveats to keep in mind.
First, there is no way to verify if a given instance is running a fork that collects more information than the upstream repo, not to mention any logging they might be doing. This is where Lemmy being self-hostable is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, if you have the sysadmin knowhow or know someone trustworthy who does, you can setup your own instance that you can be certain doesn’t collect any data you don’t expect it to. On the other hand, there is no way to prevent malicious actors from making compromised instances.
The other important caveat is that all posts and comments are public. Personal information you post in posts and comments can be used to identify you. This is true of all social media, even ones that don’t use usernames such as 4chan and similar chan-like image boards. No amount of software related privacy features can save you from bad opsec.
We’re waiting for Forgejo to support federation. We definitely want to move away from github, but we want to wait until we’re in a position for that move to be permanent while still making it easy for contributors to open issues and PRs.
Glad to see you resolved your issue. I’ll be the first to admit that the UX around languages is unintuitive and janky at the moment.
Your account is on lemmy.ml, which had some downtime the other day to test a beta version of the 0.19.4 release. Unfortunately, there were major performance issues and the admins had to revert to the old version and go back to a backup of the database from before the upgrade.
While I can’t guarantee that’s the cause of your issue, it would explain why users from other instances aren’t having the same problem.
Are you talking about the Foxconn factory with the suicide nets in Taiwan (which I predict you consider an independent country from the mainland)?