I noticed when you delete a post or comment on Lemmy it still shows up on my account with the option to “undelete” it which fully restores it and makes it public again.

Does this mean you can’t fully delete them and basically only “hide” them from the community but they will still stay on the server forever? Or is there any option to fully delete them or will that happen after some time?

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    4 months ago

    By using the fediverse you blast that comment out to any server hosted anywhere in the world hosted by anyone. Even if an instance is hosted in one of those countries it would have to be following and enforced, and you would have to follow up with every server you sent it to and verify (somehow, remember they don’t need to actually have a public frontend) that your comment was deleted.

    So, no. I would not ever assume that on the fediverse. Free and open means completely free and completely open. It’s like the 90s here, there’s no such thing as delete.