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?
Go to settings, scroll down to delete. Make sure you check “Delete Posts and Comments”
Comments should get auto-overwritten with “deleted by creator” (you can actually see the edit logo whete you wouldn’t otherwise see with a normal delete) then it gets deleted which would also show the same “deleted by creator” text, but I don’t think posts also get overwritten, they just get deleted. Images are locally stored on the instance so they should all be gone when it deletes.
You could also try a script, I never tested any.
There is probably a high likelihood of there being at least one instance that will refuse the deletion federation.
For the future, assume all Posts/Comments are public forever and just use Tor. Privacy doesn’t exist on a public forum, you goal should instead be anonymity, not privacy.
Assuming the lemm.ee admins delete the entire servers when it shuts down, any IP logs should be gone unless someone (admins or hosting servers) kept a copy of the logs.