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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. (self.fediverse)

submitted 10 months ago by purple_mimosa to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.