Looking to leave Lemmy and I’d like to erase my presence here if possible, can this be done? I’ve looked into it and from what I’ve seen, the suggested method is to just not post any more. Which is easy enough, but will I have to manually remove ALL content for all of my accounts in other to remove myself entirely from here?

  • cmat273@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    10 months ago

    Even if you delete your account and posts they could still exist on other instances/some archiver somewhere

      • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        10 months ago

        For the archiver, it’s the same issue as any publicly accessible website or forum. Archivers are going to archive

        • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.caOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          10 months ago

          Fair enough, but I hadn’t known that it would be impossible to remove any content from other instances. I suppose that’s on me.

          Guess the best thing to do is just remove the apps from my phone and walk away from it.

          • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            10 months ago

            Comment and post deletion should still work to some extent. I have seen people deleting their accounts, most of their content was deleted, with the exception of non Lemmy software like Kbin.

            You can always give it a try.

    • syd@lemy.lol
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      10 months ago

      No. It will not still exist. It can exist.

      When a user deletes an account, it federates to other instances. Other instances can ignore this request but by default it will deleted from other instances too.