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Tell me if I’m wrong, but federated systems don’t seem to be the best for privacy because you can’t ever delete all of the copies of your posts and comments? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I was thinking about this recently… By going to a federated system, one that essentially copies all of your content from one instance to another, when you delete a comment, does that comment get deleted on every instance? Is that even possible?

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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Never rely on being able to delete anything that has been published/posted. If you want privacy, don't post it. Yes, some systems make it easier to delete a post, but you can never rely on it being deleted everywhere (someone could have made a screenshot, etc.).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    At the very least your data will live on in some backups past the point of deletion for a while longer and might very well be restored (even accidentally due to some unrelated data loss) after you deleted it.

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