i have a question about fediverse of lemmy lemmy posts (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 weeks ago by adrianhooves@lemmy.today to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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hi i just wanted to ask a question which is the following umm why, why does when you do delete a post in profile your main profile does it not get deleted?? like it gets deleted but in the main profile it gets a little trash can symbol red symbol, red symbol on the right!! which means that it's been deleted but it still shows up in my profile history how can i delete it forever please?? thanks you so much!!!

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[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's not a setting that available to admins out of the box, and someone tweaking their instance not to process the request for deletion from the ActivityPub protocol can't really be detected from the outside, and sure won't be published.

Once it's out there in the fediverse, you can assume it's there to stay.

[-] sith@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but it is still preferable to have this behavior. Just as I think it's preferable to have "please do not track", even though it's being removed now. See my other reply. 99% will use the reference implement unless it sucks.

You should still warn users that what you post on the internet probably stays on the internet. Somewhere.