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

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

[–] rimu@piefed.social 9 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 23 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 21 hours ago

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