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I just fall on this and didn't know you can't remove stuff from lemmy.

I'm not touchy about privacy, but am I the only one to find this disturbing?

EDIT: Thanks to @solidgrue, I realize ActivePub (the protocol under Lemmy) actually support content deletion. It's mostly to the instances to choose to honor it or not, which make sense.

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[–] RandomPickle13 4 points 1 year ago

Would this not be similar to expecting an email to be deleted of everyones server when you delete it on your local server?

Honestly, I would find it more disturbing if I run a server/instance, and someone could delete something on my server/instance.

As for GDPR, I guess you would have to request the data to be deleted for every instance it got send to. I don't think it would be on the creator of the software/protocol to enable something like this for the entire fediverse (agian same as email). I'm not an expert however, so take this with a grain of salt.