Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story) - Michael Altfield's Tech Blog
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GDPR is really designed to target software controlled by a single entity, but this isn't that. The instances are responsible for their content, full stop. There's no way of forcing an instance to delete content, and even if there were, since the admins are running it, there's nothing stopping them from removing such a feature.
There's also nothing stopping admins from deleting content from their servers (it's just a database, after all).