In other words, can any user delete its data on its will and is there something that will remove its data from all the connected activitypub services? I believe this should actually be a basic feature and pretty much a requirement.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No, not at all. Any data that is federated out assume it's impossible to delete. Sure you can delete stuff from the original server, but will the federated ones obey the request? Or even get the request in the first place?

Nothing you post on social media should have any expectation of privacy.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 25 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

You are technically correct but the fact is that 99.9% of federated activities, including delete requests, are processed normally and in the expected way. That is not "impossible to delete" that is "will be deleted except in exceptional circumstances".

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Even if things get deleted we‘re still on the internet and everything is posted public and exposed to being scrapped the second you submit something. Your anonymity is your best friend here, I think.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

So deleted everywhere except in the places you most wish it was deleted.

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What happens with servers that are defederared. Is that one of the 0.01%?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Good question!

PieFed sends delete requests to every known server, including defederated ones. I've seen a ton of delete requests from Mastodon too, for accounts that don't exist on PieFed so it looks like Mastodon does that too. No idea about other fedi platforms.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I'd be willing to bet there's archiving going via software/servers that don't obey deletion requests.

Anything federated is public information.

[–] admin@scrapetacular.ydns.eu 5 points 21 hours ago

There's definitely a bot with a user agent like "fedi big data" doing some scraping in my server logs, does anyone know who that is?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

With how Lemmy handles deleted posts (and nuking access to the comments) I'm probably gonna make my own removeddit for Lemmy.