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Will this also affect lemmy.ml?
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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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I'm suggesting a whitelist, that each peer has to put in a substitute list of vlemmy.ml==vlemmy.ml to re-federate.
That is NOT how the testing code of lemmy_server tests things, nor how the GitHub front page advertises Lemmy.
I don't see any inherent problem with that suggestion, though it does create something of a sticky situation with things like canonical links. It also kind of goes against what I've so far perceived as a "low-maintenance" operations ethos from the project maintainers, so I'm not totally sure if they'd greenlight it. Technically quite doable, though.
I meant to say vlemmy.ml=vlemmy.net in example
~~I'll cite my source, then: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/1de7a08d973c1079b36e13e087960cc5cd1b345c .~~
EDIT: scratch that, I now see that the stated intent is to retain anonymized comments as Reddit does, but that the functionality is not yet implemented in the main code release for reasons that seem triage-related rather than a change in plans.
You cite a conversation from November 4, 2022.
A Febuary 6, 2023 comment from developers https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2624#issuecomment-1419559651 says "The correct way privacy-wise, is to delete your account through your profile settings, which overwrites all your content to remove any info."
The intention is to routinely purge all content of users who delete their account. In fact, there are open GitHub issues about serious performance problems in executing this code, even with a relatively small amount of content. Developers in the past 2 days have commented on this and made no mention of intention to retain content.