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Use Kbin at your own risk. Can’t delete account. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I signed up kbin.social but have since decided to go all in on Lemmy. I’ve tried all day to delete my account on kbin but it won’t let me. Once I click the delete confirmation pop up it simply reloads the feed and keeps your account.

Be warned. Currently you have no control over your data there. I think that settles it for me. I won’t be using that service again.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

One thing that definitely worries me with federation in general is the barrier to entry to hosting an instance is low, by design. On one hand this is great, but on the other hand it means just about anyone can spin up an instance and collect usernames, passwords, emails, etc. from anyone who signs up

I know this is obviously no better than an single giant corporation who can do that. But it's interesting to think about.

I'm definitely not suggesting kbin.social is doing this by the way. Your post just spurred this thought for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Remember folks, use a password manager and get it to create a random strong password for every site you use

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