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.

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  • @[email protected]English
    23•1 year ago

    That’s true.

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

    • @AdrianTheFrogEnglish
      10•1 year ago

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

    • aerir
      4•1 year ago

      And people are trying to remove their Reddit history now.

  • @[email protected]English
    22•1 year ago

    I think the streamlined version of what you’re saying is: don’t say stupid shit

    (That’s actually a good rule of thumb for irl too)

  • @MynameisnotdougEnglish
    18•1 year ago

    Don’t post anything to the internet that you don’t want to exist forever.

  • @_MoveSwiftlyMEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    Could you please add a “Why YSK:” as stated in rule #2? Thank you!

    • randomperson
      7•1 year ago

      I think after recent example of beehaw defederation it’s possible that after instance defederates you lose control over your comments as they don’t synchronise anymore.

      • @BigPapaE
        2•1 year ago

        Yeah it seems like this only applies after defederation but idk

    • DM_GoldOPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Yes you should be able to edit the comments. But those edited comments will remain in those other servers. Also if you make a ton of comments do you really want to edit them all?

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    There are issues like this. And Lemmy doesn’t seem to delete cached content after some time. So text content takes something like 25gB just after 1 month on my instance. And it’s not because of what we post, but just because of cached posts from communities on other instances.

    So there should be an enhancement on this with the ability to delete automatically cached content after some time.