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jointhefediverse.net - Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives? (github.com)
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jointhefediverse.net seems to be a commonly linked resource for directing people to join the Fediverse.

Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives. Their GitHub README explains why.

Previous relevant discussion: https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

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[–] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Source? I did a cursory search for "GDPR" on the GitHub issues and can't find anything like that.

Anyway, this seems to be their more recent stance:

For the future, any GDPR compliance advice needs to come from a lawyer, not from random non-lawyers interpreting what they think is correct.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4540#issuecomment-2018920191

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

I dont know what you mean. If you search for GDPR (including closed tickets) in both the Lemmy and lemmy-ui repos, you'll see lots of bugs that make running Lemmy illegal for instance admins.

Here's one particularly egregious example

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2384#issuecomment-1978679289

[–] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

Uhh... The other dev. Yeah, he's obviously wrong.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 16 minutes ago

He admitted it at the end of the ticket

Unfortunately there was some miscommunication in this issue and we failed to get to the root cause. In fact the Lemmy backend has an option to delete all content when an account is deleted. This used to be the default behaviour but was changed in 0.19 so you need to set a parameter delete_content. We failed to add a checkbox for this parameter to lemmy-ui.

However the checkbox is added now in #2385 and will be included in the next Lemmy release. Other frontends and clients may also need to adjust the delete_account api call.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

That's pretty much it