What information does a Lemmy server collect about its users?

When I delete a comment or post, is it truly deleted on the server?

Do deletions also propagate to federated servers?

  • Admiral Patrick
    3•1 year ago

    That comment is still showing normally for me and isn’t flagged as “deleted” in the DB.

    I’ve had to restart my instance and block a spammy IP. I’m still learning how the rate limits work in lemmy, and my server logs were just flooded with rate_limit_errors for the last 45 minutes or so. Finally just blocked that IP as its traffic pattern didn’t match any other Lemmy servers/clients. That said, my server may have missed some announcement messages or something. I dunno.

    On another note, I did leave a comment somewhere the other day and deleted it because I realized I sounded stupid. Someone replied to it a day later. I also deleted, restored, and re-deleted a test comment in this thread that someone else said was still visible, so I’m guessing that one of a few things could be the case:

    1. Sometimes comment/post deletions don’t federate out/in
    2. There could be something up with my instance
    3. There’s some other factor at play.
    4. There’s a bug somewhere

    I’ve got to get to bed, so that’s as far as I dive into this tonight.