• BrikoX
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    1 year ago

    Nothing. They will exist as long as the instance exists.

      • BrikoX
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        191 year ago

        You can appoint a new mod yourself before leaving, or your own account from a different instance. But if you are the only mod when you delete the account then yes. Instance admins can still apoint someone else though.

        • @Tag365
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          How do you appoint new mods though? I don’t see a menu to moderate the communities I created.

          • Die4Ever
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            It’s part of the context menu on each post/comment in the community, there’s an option to appoint them as mod

            So you gotta make a post or comment before you can become a moderator

      • Stanford
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        41 year ago

        Technically, there’s instance admins. But I don’t know.

    • gelberhut
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      41 year ago

      Are you sure? I mean, the only mod acccount is deleted. account whic created some posts and comments there is deleted. And everything will stay as is?

        • gelberhut
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          01 year ago

          In this case, Lemmy contradicts GDPR, and instance admins have legal responsibility.

          • BrikoX
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            GDPR only applies to companies with 250+ employees.

            • gelberhut
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              Can you provide a source for this statement? According to legal clarification I checked, the rule to permanently delete user data applicable to small businesses as well.

              • BrikoX
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                01 year ago

                Sorry I answered a bit out of context. Right to Erasure applies no matter the size, it’s the processing of the data records that only applies to companies with 250+ employees.

                And Lemmy is GDPR compliant now as if a post/comment is deleted it is removed within 30 days. But it falls down to each instance that federates to process those delete requests. But deleting your account doesn’t delate the content you generated not does it claim to do so.

                • gelberhut
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                  11 year ago

                  Thanks. I fully understand that instance admins are responsible to their instance only. And single post/comment removing logic also makes sense. But the idea that removing account keeps all content untouched sounds rather questionable from a regular-user centric point of view which GDPR follows. I mean this logic would allow goigle/Facebook/Twitter etc to keep basically everything since this is mostly things you created + metadata.

                  I will try to find out if/what Lemmy documentation says about this.

                  • BrikoX
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                    01 year ago

                    Lemmy definetely should add an option to delete all content when deleting the account, but I think the reason it doesn’t is that it would leave big gaps in conversations under posts (e.g. if I were to delete my comments in this thread, your comments would make no sense for anything else reading then). Alternatively they could just unlink it from the account and just leave the post/comment with some placeholder name like deleted.