Comment on 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.

• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  but.. im not using lemmy

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mastadon works the same way, all ActivityPub services work the same way.

    By being Federated that means data is being sent to remote servers. Sometimes that data doesn’t always make it, like a delete request. So someone on their own home-server deletes their post, but on some remote server where that post is cached, it’s not deleted, because the delete request never federated.

    This is literally a consequence of how federation works. It’s not a purposeful violation of GDPR.

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      sorry, i was just being snotty.

      i know full well and am on the side of pointing out the futility of attempting privacy in a public space.

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  • ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You may not be directly using it, but this is part and parcel of the entire point of federated social media. Other software will be accessing the pool.

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