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Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago by purple_mimosa@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.

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[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy should implement proper post deletion, possibly with a delay to allow moderators and admins to inspect deleted posts, but expect anything you share via ActivityPub to follow the once on the internet, always on the internet rule even more than in the past.

How would this be done? Like you mentioned, anyone can run a modified instance of Lemmy that does not honor delete requests. I suppose you could put something that retrieves content from other servers as a pull operation instead of a push, but that's going to break Lemmy's ability to work with other ActivityPub applications (at the very least).

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

How would this be done? Like you mentioned, anyone can run a modified instance of Lemmy that does not honor delete requests.

Delete currently renders posts invisible to most users. Delete should actually delete the post from the server.

It's impossible to ensure that the post is deleted from federated servers, web caches, clients that cache things, etc....

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are no guarantees either way. Even if the delete was somehow enforceable in software, it can be defeated with a simple server backup/restore of any federated server.

I think federated servers should respect any user generated delete request, but as users we need to expect that they wont.