Submitted 1 year ago by skymtf@pricefield.org to fediverse@lemmy.world
I have been curious of this one since it’s a feature that mastodon has, and while I understand with FOSS software anyone can disable that, but usually people don’t and if I knew they were doing that I would defederate them.
Admittedly I hadn’t experimented to be sure, but I assumed edits and deletes would have been federated already. Are they really not?
Comment and post edits and deletes are federated. OP probably means account deletion. Currently, if you delete your Lemmy account, it does not federate, so your old comments and posts stick around on other instances, I believe even with your old username attached.
Lemmy be deadnaming us! #cancellemmy
Thanks for clearing that up. I was truly confused.
They are federated, but it’s not reliable. Lot of room for improvement. I have comments that where the deletion never federated so they’re basically on other servers forever.
I’ve made edits and deletes, and as far as I can tell, once the instances sync up, those edits/deletes are synced as well - I have noticed a delay, but it usually kicks in like overnight (for example) when I make a change to my account on lemm.ee for lemmy.world to see it, etc.
I’m totally with you, that’s a really important functionality to ease people’s GDPR concerns!
I have just gotten in the habit of editing first and adding the same two characters. Then I delete. If I want to in the future, I can potentially search based on those characters. I mostly just delete because I don’t want to see the replies any more, or get reminded about something every time I view my profile.
Smart
manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 1 year ago
updates are federated so really its just a matter of the client changing behavior a bit.