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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Mods and admins can remove posts and they don't stay on the server. If you delete it yourself, then it stays. Comments stay deleted, though and is replaced with a 'deleted by creator' message.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Mods and admins can remove posts but they do stay only if they're "removed". But if they're "purged", then they're deleted from the server.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I noticed a lot of clients like sync try and hide that fact. Poorly