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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

How does Lemmy deal with deletion requests for banned accounts? There does not appear to be any built in functionality to make this possible which makes compliance with the law more difficult.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Admins have a "purge user" option

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Good to know. It seems they still have to do it manually. It might make sense to allow users to delete their own accounts though.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Go to your user settings, and click the big red delete account button.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This doesn't work if you are banned as it prevents you from logging in. Being able to log in and not post is a more user friendly banned state and would allow them to delete their account themselves.

Side question, deleting your account or purging a user would delete all of that users comments correct?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Purging a user will do that, but it won't federate the removal to other instances.

You could remove the posts before purging, but that doesn't trigger a purge on the remote end, it just hides the content.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hrm, open an issue on the github if you would.

Deleting your own account overwrites all your content in the DB with dummy data.

Purging is an activity done by admins that does an actual database delete. It's very dangerous and should only be done in extreme cases.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

is lemmy capable of sending all data from a user efficiently on request?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You mean like an account export? We have an open issue for that, but its not completed yet.

this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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