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.
Hashing could happen client-side, but there’s not much of a difference. If you’re using HTTPS, then all traffic to the server is end-to-end encrypted anyway.
At some point you have to trust the website that you’re connecting to, but obviously don’t re-use passwords, use a password manager, etc etc