Add a disclaimer about federation on sign up

[sunaurus]

Description

I have seen a lot of users confused about data deletion, what is shared with other servers, etc (especially in context of the GDPR). I think it makes sense to ask for explicit consent regarding federation on user sign up. Feedback welcome!

Depends on LemmyNet/lemmy-translations#81

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[alectrocute]

I'm tempted to suggest that we add a new page that includes info like this, and link to it from the sign up form instead.

[sunaurus]

I think most big instances already have this type of thing in /legal, but the reason I thought of adding this explicit federation consent message is that I think that it's way more user friendly than the separate legal page. My fear is that 99% of users will always skip any privacy policy type links, and thus might not fully understand what they're signing up for.

[alectrocute]

I think most big instances already have this type of thing in /legal, but the reason I thought of adding this explicit federation consent message is that I think that it's way more user friendly than the separate legal page. My fear is that 99% of users will always skip any privacy policy type links, and thus might not fully understand what they're signing up for.

Sure, good point, but I’ll counter with: we don’t even have a ‘I agree to…’ checkbox or link to a TOS at all on this sign-up page. I think that would be a clean middle ground.

[wiki-me]

Starting to try to educate users on online privacy is a whole seperate thing IMO, maybe we could link to some other site, for example most users probably don't know services even for big and "successful" companies like google or facebook get hacked, or that information about username and email from multiple hacks can be used to dox them.

[dessalines]

How about as a good compromise, and a way to keep the signup page clean:

• Add this disclaimer to the top of the Legal page (and always show the legal page, even if its null).
• Have a required signup checkbox "I have read the legal page / etc"), like @alectrocute suggested.

[wiki-me]

Have a required signup checkbox "I have read the legal page / etc"), like @alectrocute suggested

I would not like to encourage what was called "the biggest lie on the internet", there was actually a study that made people agree to give their first born.

A suggest linking to "terms of service didn;t read" , also mentioning that other sites can't really guarntee full deletion (web archive is a thing, not to mention backups proprietary sites do), other wise it might scare off people who are vulnerable to decision making biases (e.g. some claim poverty overwhelms critical thinking skills).

[alectrocute]

Where are we at with this? I would still love to see this added as an extra page and accompanying checkbox.

[dessalines]

Should also add a link to the legal page: LemmyNet/lemmy-translations#81

[Nutomic]

A link to the documentation would also work. Btw the message mentions "instance" a lot but new users might have no idea what that means. So consider changing it to "server" or explaining it.