I thought I’d give you context just in case, as your question was vague. You might not have consumed YouTube and was blissfully unaware. :)

YouTube STEM educator. 15 million subscribers. Probably in the top 5 STEM educators on the platform.

He released a video on the number 37 two weeks ago, with 6 million views.

Hello Veritasium enjoyer

Whilst true about anyone can scrape data off Reddit, I think it’s more of a pain since before the API updates the rate limit was 2 API calls per second. You also have to find or create a scraper. With Lemmy, you follow the instructions (copy and paste) on join-lemmy.org to create your instance and you’re done. Both methods you have to configure it to subscribe to communities, so they’re about the same.

In the EU at least there is a right to be forgotten, so yeah, Reddit and other platforms are forced to delete the data on request. I’m not sure how the same can be applied to a distributed network like Lemmy.

There were publicly available archives of Reddit. The last time I checked, you couldn’t find the latest submissions and comments. Maybe things have changed, maybe newer alternatives have appeared.

FDA approved stainless steel (316L) doesn’t actually rust. Otherwise you’d have sprinkles of rust in your food and drink from production, and you’d have to buy new utensils and a kitchen sink because they’ve rusted.

There are different grades of stainless steel with their varying properties.

If an instance is defederated, the owners can just spin up a new instance.

I’ve always thought about what you’ve said about Lemmy when people start talking about how Lemmy is more privacy focused than Reddit.

As one of your replies have said many people in the hundreds/thousandths have a copy of your data on Lemmy - the instance owners. If you decide you’ve shared too much information then you end up asking every owner to delete that nugget of information. And realistically there is nothing to enforce it. This is one benefit of the walled garden of places like Reddit because they are legally obligated to delete the information especially in places like the EU.

I still use Boost for Reddit. It’s never stopped working.