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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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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Also, one would hope you could trust your admins to defederate from instances who aren't respecting delete requests.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    AFAIK deletes do get federated. Also, it would be trivial to implement soft delete where the data is retained but bot shown.

    In some cases soft deletes are good and useful because it allows things "deleted" for spam and rule breaking to be retained and used to build a case against a bad user/bot or train spam filters, etc.

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