A screenshot, taken way before rexxit, of two comments on reddit, dated “1 year ago”.
The first comment is by a deleted user and the comment has been removed. The second comment is a reply to the deleted comment and it says: “That solved it. Thanks!”
Edit: added temporal context.
I just came from another discussion on whether it’s a good or bad thing that others can still see the username on some Lemmy instances even after comments get deleted. What do you guys think? I’d really hate to be the person in that image who would likely be flooded by DMs asking for solutions.
On the one hand you have to be more careful. On Reddit I could regularly purge my account and that would keep privacy from most low hanging fruit. Allowing me to share a bit more than I normally would.
On the other hand you know this going in. Reddit used to be more private but dickheads like the Pushshift guy would try work around that and then offer to honor privacy, but ignore requests etc. So it BECAME more complex.
Though honestly anything you type should be considered public record and something you would be willing to say at a coffee shop. However I have had people select context and try and dox me. So I try and keep it just vague enough.
Deleting your Lemmy account will however also remove your username off posts, I think.
The history is likely saved forever. And an instance could be modified to not respect the update and deletions pretty easily
Sure, but it would border on illegal. At the very least, they would have to be far more carefull about GDPR and California law.
Not sure that’s true. I would think you would have to contact the instance owner to request to delete your data. And you’d have no idea they were even federating
When you send a gdpr request to an instance, it is required to forward it to all parties it shared data with. So all instances it federates with.
But I am not talking about gdpr requests but data usage. Intentionally not removing data a user requested to be removed would get you in truble with the legitimate use (part of consent) requirements.