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Use Kbin at your own risk. Can’t delete account. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I signed up kbin.social but have since decided to go all in on Lemmy. I’ve tried all day to delete my account on kbin but it won’t let me. Once I click the delete confirmation pop up it simply reloads the feed and keeps your account.

Be warned. Currently you have no control over your data there. I think that settles it for me. I won’t be using that service again.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

GDPR and CCPA lawyers when reading this comment.

https://tenor.com/view/waterboy-rubbing-nipples-gif-11600510

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, you can't unsend an email either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but I'll bet money someone will file some frivolous lawsuits at some point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The key word there bring frivolous, and like 99% of frivolous lawsuits get tossed out rapidly and/or result in a ton of wasted money by the filer. Slapp only really work when you have a lot of money already to justify it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gdpr is not that easy, and the right to be forgotten is certainly more complicated than people are making it out to be. Public facing forum posts have even less protection, for fairly obvious reasons. Now if Lemmy instances were sharing your account information and not deleting that, it gets murkier.

Lemmy should probably keep gdpr and ccpa in mind but public facing forum comments are early qualified under the right to be forgotten unless they meet certain criteria.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do these regulations even apply in this case? Lemmy is non-commercial and it’s a distributed. Who would the regulators even go after?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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