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?
Even if you delete your account and posts they could still exist on other instances/some archiver somewhere
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.
So, there’s no way to just be removed entirely from Lemmy? Wish I knew this before joining.
For the archiver, it’s the same issue as any publicly accessible website or forum. Archivers are going to archive
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.
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.
Thanks. I’ll try it out.
Do you think you’ve posted anything that would be worth removing in the first place? Seems pretty unlikely, so could be just a case of deleting your account and moving on. Unless you went around posting stuff that could get you in trouble and left in easy way to connect that to you in other ways, I don’t see why it matters.
No, nothing that could cause trouble at all. It’s more of a ceremonial burn the bridges on my way out sort of thing.
you make a big post about it, and announce that you’re leaving, and we have a little ceremony where we celebrate the fact that you were here at all, and then we burn you
Sounds very bittersweet.
The decentralization aspect of Lemmy is intended to reduce censorship instead of privacy or ephemerality of information.
The best thing you could do to accomplish what you wish is to edit your comments to instead read “Deleted”. It’s not perfect because changes may propogate slowly or not at all to some servers.
A script may be there to do this automatically but I haven’t looked.
Like any public forum, either take ownership of what you say or don’t say it.
It’s not about ownership. I don’t care much about that at all. It’s just that this place isn’t what I thought it would be and I don’t want to have had participated in it at all.
Think of it as a ceremonial thing. Burn the bridges so to speak.
I don’t want to have had participated
I have something to tell you about the passage of time
Alright, I’m not here to judge your motivations for leaving, so I wish you the best in the search of a community that better fits your needs. I hope my answer was useful to you.
I appreciate that. Seems the general consensus is negative for my even asking such a thing- which is pretty much my reason for leaving. You’re and the few like you are the exception to the rule, but it’s really the arrogance and childish behavior of the hive-mind there that I’m wanting to leave.
I originally kept that to myself as I didn’t want to make waves and I didn’t think it was important, but take a look at how much shit I’m getting for simply asking a question.
I feel pretty similar, have you found a different site you think you’ll like better?
Not really. I lurk in Reddit for some of the game-related content I need, and just get news from Reuters and such.
Sadly, everything is so polarized now that it’s impossible to find a comfortable place for voice of reason-based content without either being yelled at, called names, or flat out banned for disagreeing with the hive.
Man you’ve been arguing all throughout your post history and calling people names. While also being super antagonistic in how you engage discourse. Then this haughty post about deleting your account and wanting the related post gone as well. Why not just leave the account? If you don’t care who reads the posts and it’s nothing more than some symbolic bridge burning; I would have thought you’d just leave once you realise it would be a headache.
The next place you go to I hope you examine your own posting and language you use if you’re going to leave websites citing polarised politics and how toxic the discourse is. If you end up keeping on, block specifically political instances (and any instance you don’t care for its politics) and learn to leave a discussion when it descends into name calling/flaming. Internet based discourse is nearly always a waste of time for politics. You’re talking to people through screens; few of whom will feel any obligation to be civil because of that fact alone.
Point it out to me an instance where I was antagonistic where I wasn’t just defending myself from others attacking me?
This is exactly my point. You say something/ask a question, then people insult/ridicule, then you defend/explain yourself and become the villain to their victim.
It’s pathetic.
I have nothing productive or helpful to say here other than: OP you are so unbelievably naive to think what you ever say is significant enough to warrant people caring what you say, but also dumb enough to think that anything you delete from the internet is ever truly gone. You deserve this. You will never be forgotten and you will always be reminded of your mistakes.
… I award you zero points, and may god have mercy on your soul
This is essentially the reason I want to get the fuck out of here. It’s the naive arrogance of kids like you that post here. I thought it would be an alternative to Reddit, but no- it’s just a bunch of whiny children playing at politics.
For what it’s worth-
I never said what I said was significant. And my reasons shouldn’t be important to you- or necessary to the end goal of getting an answer- but if you’d REALLY like to know, maybe read a bit of the comments before you knee-jerk yourself into embarrassment, because I explained it already.
Thanks though for further proving that I’m making the right call. You will be why this place never reaches its full potential.
Maybe you’re just in the wrong instance, and maybe you just need to block the instances you can’t bear dealing with?
You say you want a Reddit alternative and while this isn’t exactly like reddit, "it’s just a bunch of whiny children playing at politics. " is exactly how I would describe Reddit unless you block the top 10 popular subreddits.
Maybe try blocking the instances you get this vibe from, and move to one more suited to your tastes?
Wanting out of lemmy altogether is like wanting out of earth because China sucks. Just block the instances you don’t like.
For example, I don’t mean to pry, but judging from your comment history, maybe try getting out of lemmy.world and lemmy.ml as a start since the political views of the users there don’t seem to align with yours.
Might try that. Thanks for the advice. Got any instances that are nothing like .world or .ml that stand out?
It is hard to recommend anything without knowing what kind of hobbies you’re into, but picking something niche might work well. I am a software engineer so I picked .dev, which turned out not as niche as I initially thought, but being surrounded by likeminded people rather than the majority is a completely different experience.
Internet connections should come with the disclaimer that everything done on the internet remains on the internet forever. I’m still finding bits of myself from over a decade ago and I shudder at the dumb things I used to say unknowingly. At least now I tell them on purpose, or at least fully conscious they might be dumb as hell.
Deleting your account on your home instance should remove all posts and it federates. But don’t blame the instance admins when it doesn’t federate well to every instance because Lemmy is buggy software.
