Hi all!
So, with the whole lemm.ee saga, I would like to be able to delete my whole comment history. I know they should get deleted from lemm.ee the moment I delete my account, but I think these don’t get federated, and all the comments I made back in the day under this account will remain forever in the federated instances. Moreover, once the account is deleted there won’t be a way to remove them. So I wanted to try and delete them first. Is this possible, is there a tool that could do this for me like the old reddit nuking tool?
You cannot meaningfully delete your posts or comments. That’s not because of any issue with lemmy, but because you posted them publicly. They will be archived and indexed in other services.It is always best to remember that all your activity here is public, and will be linked to your username. Given that, you may wish to minimise any personally identifying information you post, and use several accounts to split up your activities by topic.
I don’t believe other instances will receive any sort of deletion request from lemm.ee, it’ll just go away. Any instances that have a copy of your posts or comments will keep them for as long as they wish. Even if you manually delete the comments and lemm.ee federates that action out, there is no guarantee that any other server will actually act on it, and you can be certain that archiving services will not.
Ultimately it comes down to the fact that you posted, commented or voted in public, and that will remain public indefinitely. That’s as much down to howpublic data is captured by other entities as it is to the concept of federation.