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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[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's not a community setting or feature. It's a fact of the internet.

If you publish something to someone else's website, you no longer have any control over it. And federation means publishing your content on thousands of websites, many of them not even running the same software. Your comments are out there on mbin sites, Friendica sites, Hubzilla sites, Mastodon sites, Misskey sites, and many others. Someone's pribably got a custom web server they developed, slapped some ActivityPub inside of it, and didn't bother to make it even understand delete requests.

This is the internet. It is public, and it is forever. You really need to treat it as such.

[-] sith@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, but all that is true for Facebook, Reddit and whatever. It's still nice to have this feature in the "reference" implementation of Lemmy. I think. Then it will also be easier for instance owners and moderators to follow any local laws that requires this.

I don't know if this is already in the ActivityPub protocol, but it would be nice if all instances who has a copy of some content, deletes it, if it has been marked "request for deletion" by the creator or the owner of the instance where it was first posted. There will always be actors that store specifically all posts that's been marked for delete, but I still think this is preferable.