Comment on [PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 days agoIt doesn’t matter. If someone believes they’ve linked too much and wants to delete it, they should be able to. If someone wants to delete their content for any reason they should be able to.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Honestly? No, they should t be able to blanket delete everything theyve posted on the off chance it’s identifiable information
They should have the right to find that info and remove it, but I’m 1000% against people potentially taking down useful information from society and I do not care that people want to whine about their “right” to take their fucking ball back and end the game
So much useful info gone from Reddit because babies didn’t want to keep supporting the bad site and now good luck finding it anywhere else
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 days ago
Exactly. And I sometimes find myself in the position where internet enshittification and content vanishing harms me more than it helps. So I'd like to balance this with the other side of the medal, where people might have legitimate interest to do so. But so far the argument has been "just because". And for me, that argument doesn't tip the scale to their direction. I still have tangible arguments not to over-delete. While the other side seems to be very theoretical.
pseudo@jlai.lu 2 days ago
The thing is: if I cannot easily remove the information I want from what I produce, I might as well delete everything including what is useful.
And I’m not speaking hypotetically here. Everytime I struggle to find the comments about how my day went in a sea of “deleted by user” comment, I feel like I should just delete my whole history and start afresh. If Lemmy doesn’t improve that way, all the effort I put guiding new users and posting on small community will go pouf… Because I won’t take it much longer.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 days ago
Sure. Question is: How can we improve that? Is this a symptom for another missing feature? Or do we want to not address it and just provide one nuclear option? Would you for example like a feature for ephermeral comments, which auto-destruct after a week or so? PieFed has something like that for posts. Or the ability to categorize comments so you can find them later on? Or an option to (regularly) wipe your history, so you don't have to delete the whole account...
That's why I ask for exact reasons, and not just a vague feeling about how the platform is bad... I mean it is for some edge-cases like this. And I don't see how Lemmy would improve on this in the near future. Seems some of the groundworks still don't work properly. But this doesn't have to apply to other Fediverse software.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
You don’t get to decide what’s identifiable and what’s not. How do you know the useful information isn’t identifying?
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Which is it? Or do you just have a problem with being able to easily delete the information?