I don’t think there would be any way to protect from that, but you’d have the same issue with full deletion.
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ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 19 hours agoDisassociating with old comments and posts would be a good way to go, but I’m not really sure that’s an option for the fediverse? In theory couldn’t someone in the future set up an instance whose sole purpose is just back up and collect data? How would someone even go about trying to erase themselves from a situation like that?
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
You’re absolutely right, somebody totally could do that (instances that don’t respect post/reply deletion requests are already a known issue), and there’s very little you could do about that sort of thing once it’s already happened.
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Which is why I think people on lemmy need to get used to the fact that their data isn’t theirs to own on something that is so public facing like this. Instead we should reteach people to be conscious of what information they post. Once upon a time even A/S/L was too much info.