Why? It’s all public information. If a central authority COULD delete all your posts and erase your existence, that would be bad
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dontblink@feddit.it 1 day agoI believed we were better than Reddit… I truly believe this should be a BASIC feature. On Reddit you have to manually delete every single post, if you forget to do that basically your entire posts and comments history will be online forever…
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 1 day ago
rimu@piefed.social 1 day ago
It is a basic feature and it does work. Except in rare cases.
rglullis@communick.news 1 day ago
“it works when everyone behaves well” is not the same as being protected.
It doesn’t even take a malicious actor: I am working on a local-first browser extension that is very aggressive about caching content in the database. There is no “please delete this data” for an extension. You of all people should not be making claims about privacy that you know you can not guarantee.
rglullis@communick.news 1 day ago
Asking to delete data that you published on the public internet is the same as asking for water to be not wet.
Don’t fall for the illusion of privacy that the proprietary networks give you: there are people that copy data from reddit just for the fun of it. Always assume that anything you publish online is publicly available.