YSK That if you delete your lemmy account, your comments/posts made on other instances will remain there forever.

Tibert, 9 months ago

There are issues like this. And Lemmy doesn’t seem to delete cached content after some time. So text content takes something like 25gB just after 1 month on my instance. And it’s not because of what we post, but just because of cached posts from communities on other instances.

So there should be an enhancement on this with the ability to delete automatically cached content after some time.

Mynameisnotdoug, 11 months ago

Don't post anything to the internet that you don't want to exist forever.

_MoveSwiftly, 11 months ago

Could you please add a "Why YSK:" as stated in rule #2? Thank you!

aspseka, 11 months ago

Can't you edit those comments?

DM_Gold, 11 months ago

Yes you should be able to edit the comments. But those edited comments will remain in those other servers. Also if you make a ton of comments do you really want to edit them all?

aspseka, 11 months ago

Will I always be talking rubbish? 🤷

mim, 11 months ago

I guess you could automate it.

randomperson, 11 months ago

I think after recent example of beehaw defederation it's possible that after instance defederates you lose control over your comments as they don't synchronise anymore.

BigPapaE, 11 months ago

Yeah it seems like this only applies after defederation but idk

Zaphodquixote, 11 months ago

That's true.

But, everyone should be working from the assumption that whatever they put on the internet is there forever anyway.

aerir, 11 months ago

And people are trying to remove their Reddit history now.

AdrianTheFrog, 11 months ago

Everyone should also know that anything on the internet can completely disappear at any time without warning

ISOmorph, 11 months ago

I think the streamlined version of what you're saying is: don't say stupid shit

(That's actually a good rule of thumb for irl too)

OrangeBench, 11 months ago

But stupid shit is all I know!