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Can I delete my Lemmy account and just vanish? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by admin to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I like sharing my thoughts and struggles here, but I don't want it to be a permanent digital footprint and wish to delete all the posts and comments one day.

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[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nutomic, one of the original developers of Lemmy explains here that overwriting your post and deleting your account will remove the content permanently. Deleting a post individually will however leave its content in the database of the instance, for recovery purpose:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2977

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

However, If I recall correctly, I think that when creating a post if you upload an image then it is immediately put into the database whether or not the post is actually made. As a result I don't think there is a way to overwrite these, so some trace would still remain in such an instance if I am not mistaken.

Furthermore none of this prevents or rectifies snapshots or backups of data being created by pretty much any entity - I know that's probably not in the scope of the question, but just something tangentially related to keep in mind.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can delete uploaded media since v.19 iirc.

There's a media tab in your profile on supported clients where you can see and remove uploaded media files.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Missed that update, that's great to know. Thanks!