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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[–] solidgrue 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like email: after you send it off your own MTA, you have no control over what happens to the copy at the far end, or any other MTAs it happens to traverse.

ActivityPub does distribute updates to posts, including delete intents, but instances are not bound to honor it. Same as how recalling an email isn't guaranteed to work.

Disturbing? I'd say more that it's sobering. I think it should prompt people to think more carefully about their accountability for what and how they post. I also may come to change this opinion over time.

[–] Narann 5 points 1 year ago

ActivityPub does distribute updates to posts, including delete intents

Oh! I thought that it was a limitation of the ActivePub protocol to not support delete intents because of “the Internet never forget”.

but instances are not bound to honor it.

Yes, totally make sense.