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You don't control the data either way. Federation and deletion are in conflict. Even if you deleted the account, there is no guarantee it would be deleted from other servers that the data was copied to. (And to be clear, Lemmy has exactly the same issue.)
GDPR and CCPA lawyers when reading this comment.
https://tenor.com/view/waterboy-rubbing-nipples-gif-11600510
Do these regulations even apply in this case? Lemmy is non-commercial and it’s a distributed. Who would the regulators even go after?
The other point is, how do you know which instances to go after to delete any content anyways? I think there is a way to see a list of federated servers, but there’s no way to know which has your data.
In theory you could send a takedown request to each of them, but that doesn’t seem helpful