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?
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?
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.).
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.
This. Not being able to ensure permanent deletion ≠ unprivate. It is a public community / set of websites, you have to lower your expectation of privacy (for services like this.)