So say I make an account on lemmy.world and post a bunch of stupid comments around other instances then decide to delete my account because I’m ashamed of them. After I delete my account, a copy of all those comments I made on other instances remain on those instances as a “shadow copy.” There isn’t any way to actually delete them all. The copies of the comments/posts on your home instance will be deleted

tldr: Don’t say stupid shit on other instances you’ll regret later! They never leave that instance!

Why YSK: so you can think carefully about what to comment and post.

I migrated from beehaw. You can see my previous post history here: [email protected]

  • @[email protected]
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    231 year ago

    That’s true.

    But, everyone should be working from the assumption that whatever they put on the internet is there forever anyway.

    • @AdrianTheFrog
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      101 year ago

      Everyone should also know that anything on the internet can completely disappear at any time without warning

    • aerir
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      41 year ago

      And people are trying to remove their Reddit history now.