I get the idea of instances, like you can make your own and this is good for privacy. But some lemmy instances are much more popular and this in fact makes it another Reddit. If there are separate instances for niche topics, why not make it another community inside a larger instance?

    • eleitl@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Your profile contains your post history to many of your communities.

      I’m pointing out that if you’re going to the trouble of hosting your own instance you could as well allow some convenient number of random users to register. It would erase most of your signal and help distribute the load and exposure to specific legal compartments.

        • rglullisA
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          GDPR perspective

          GDPR does not apply here. Content that people write on a forum does not count as PII. If you are not sending your users’s IP or email addresses to a third-party, you have nothing to worry about.