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You are technically correct but the fact is that 99.9% of federated activities, including delete requests, are processed normally and in the expected way. That is not “impossible to delete” that is “will be deleted except in exceptional circumstances”.

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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So deleted everywhere except in the places you most wish it was deleted.

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GlenRambo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
What happens with servers that are defederared. Is that one of the 0.01%?

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- rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Good question!
  
  PieFed sends delete requests to every known server, including defederated ones. I’ve seen a ton of delete requests from Mastodon too, for accounts that don’t exist on PieFed so it looks like Mastodon does that too. No idea about other fedi platforms.
  
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  - nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’d be willing to bet there’s archiving going via software/servers that don’t obey deletion requests.
    
    Anything federated is public information.
    
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    admin@scrapetacular.ydns.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    There’s definitely a bot with a user agent like “fedi big data” doing some scraping in my server logs, does anyone know who that is?
    
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    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    With how Lemmy handles deleted posts (and nuking access to the comments) I’m probably gonna make my own removeddit for Lemmy.
    
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CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Even if things get deleted we‘re still on the internet and everything is posted public and exposed to being scrapped the second you submit something. Your anonymity is your best friend here, I think.

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