It’d be nice to (eventually!) see a link laying out a privacy policy for the instance, something like: https://newsie.social/privacy-policy
I’d especially be interested to know how long you associate the IP addresses we visit from with our accounts, who can see that info (and our emails), what other PII you store, and how long deleted posts/accounts are stored for.
(Totally get and very much appreciate that smorks &co have a lot on their plates just getting this place off the ground, not trying to demand additional work, just a suggestion. Seems like it’d take some thinking to balance with eg. a good backup regimen.)
It’s important to be aware that in the case of posts; comments; votes, in federated space, and particularly with Lemmy, there are cases where your content will be hosted on other instances under your name without any way to edit/remove.
For instance if Lemmy.ca got defederated from another instance you engaged with, copies will remain on the other instance, with your user name, and no way to remove/edit. Those instances may have very different policies. Or if Lemmy stopped hosting, all other federated copies remain.
I do think it is important for local instances to eventually publish their own policies, but I think it is going to take a larger Lemmy wide initiative to develop a proper policy framework.