I enjoy deleting my old posts and comments
You do you I guess
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2024
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Btw, it's super annoying if I bookmark something, or remember something, check out the old post and the author deleted it. Happend more than once to me already. I mean it's your content and your choice. Just wanted to say it's annoying to me.
If I'm linking to a personal blog or something that may not have long legs I sometimes take a snapshot on web.archive.org.
I still link to the site directly so they get the traffic and visitors get any updates they might make but I know that if the direct link dies the page is still available for anyone who looks it up.
hmmh. I recently installed linkwarden to do this. but i regularly forget to add links 😅 good advice though.
This might be tricky, given that Lemmy is federated ^[1]^; there's no guarantee that deletions will be federated to all instances — eg an instance could defederate from the rest of the network after your content's been pushed to it.
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- "Introduction". Lemmy Documentation. Lemmy. Accessed: 2024-12-01T08:02Z. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/introduction.html.
- ¶1
Lemmy is a selfhosted, federated social link aggregation and discussion forum. […]
- ¶1
Even if the deletion request is federated - what stops me from using a modified server that ignores them and stores them anyways?
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If you don't mind answering, out of curiosity, why do you want to mass delete your old comments?
I can't answer for OP, but for me personally, I like to delete my old stupid takes, and other than that, sometimes you have to share some personal info ( describe yourself, where you're coming from.. etc ) for the sake of having a healthy discussion, that could accumulate and leads to exposing your real identity to.. say an employer
I've written a small program to do that for me on a schedule. Deletes on Lemmy are pretty unreliable, though, so I'm not sure if I'll ever clean up the code enough to release it into the wild.
Many Lemmy servers fail to process/blatantly ignore deletion requests, though. That's why the program also sends an edit, though that also gets ignored occasionally. Deletes in a federated system are just a request, nothing more, and that request often gets silently ignored.