[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess
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I edit over and then delete all my comments every few days. I’ve never encountered a site that truly purges your account so as annoying it is it just feels necessary at this point
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Another reason why I suggest another instance than LW
Lemmy from 0.19.4 allows users to at least delete their uploaded images
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... of course you chime in with this take
- MrKaplan deleted the images for me manually, which i am sure he would not just do for me
- the process is even worse on other instances and they can also only delete images up to a certain point.
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Great info, thanks for clueing me in.
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Seems better to be able to delete your uploads yourself than having to ask manual support from an admin
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I guess that is a bit nicer, although the contact with MrKaplan was enjoyable.
And if your account deletion on your super cool tiny instance is only happening locally, you may not even delete it at all. At least on world you delete your stuff from a third of the lemmyverse in one go, but i'm sure you will be happy to spread some more bad news about world, all in the name to grow the fediverse
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You always seemed very defensive about any criticism against LW, I never understood why
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Maybe reread what i wrote and think about why i may find your dunk on world misplaced. That i was defensive about any lw criticism is just not true either.
And yeah, your crusade against world (actually all the instance beefing, you can find examples of me being defensive of criticism of .ml too in my not-deleted accounts) was also part of why i lost hope in the lemmy project. And i did not agree that you create fake traffic in other communities to ask the world mods to shut down their communities, because yours now has more traffic (although it was basically all produced all by you). I thought that was dumb as hell, but you do you. I was more interested in actual communities interested in topics, not instance beef.
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Is this automatic?
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Nope lol
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Lemmy.world is a trash instance.
But! Without it being the honey pot that draws all the dimwits from elsewhere (same for whatever Hexbear/Chapo domain those dipshits have now) and keeps them there, I oppose defederating from them, we should only sandbox them so any comments they make stays on the .world domain.
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A reason why I never joined LW.
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The fediverse is inherently a place where it's a lot harder to delete anything than on non-federated platforms. It always will be because everything you post here is instantly copied to hundreds (if not thousands) of other servers. Some of them may be actively hostile and intentionally not respect deletions. Some of them may just be misconfigured or for another non-malicious reason fail to delete things.
So don't post things on the fediverse that you think you might one day regret.
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Can you guys read?
Holy moly, this place seems to have gotten worse in the last two months lol.
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That an account deletion on, say, lemm.ee does not get federated with anybody at all was kind of unexpected to me, i thought this might be interesting for others as well.
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I just read your entire post, so don't know what the fuck you are on about my reading comprehension.
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I do the same (though I have automated the process). I'm thinking of also undoing any votes just in case.
Edit+delete doesn't remove content when servers defederate each other, unfortunately. I suspect this can be fixed if you control the Lemmy server your account is hosted on, but I haven't bothered exploring that yet.
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So don't post things on the fediverse that you think you might one day regret.
I think they meant this as general advice for all lemmings and not your particular post, which btw is very much appreciated.
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OP does have a point.
This isn't really helpful.
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I don't know what you're talking about, but lemmy.world definitely does not condone what you're saying.
