Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…

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    I’m never to sure about GDPR. The spirit of the law is that any identifiable information has to indeed be removed.

    However, does a Lemmy username really fit that definition? If John Doe has all of his Lemmy content under CoolNick89, I’m not sure GDPR applies.

    Emails, especially if they contain first and last name, are a different story, but those would only be known by the host instance.

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      The law specifically names “online identifier”.

      The data subjects are identifiable if they can be directly or indirectly identified, especially by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one of several special characteristics, which expresses the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, commercial, cultural or social identity of these natural persons. In practice, these also include all data which are or can be assigned to a person in any kind of way. For example, the telephone, credit card or personnel number of a person, account data, number plate, appearance, customer number or address are all personal data.

      https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/personal-data/

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        Interesting, thanks. I’ll research this further.

        IP addresses make more sense, because they can be used to be cross-checked with your ISP to know who you are.

        If you don’t tell anyone your username and use a VPN, there is no way for people to guess your Lemmy username