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This “fatal” flaw is hardly unique to ActivityPub. You fundamentally cannot control anything you publish on the internet. You can’t stop people from saving copies or taking screenshots, you can’t stop archive bots or LLM web scrapers, and you can’t force Lemmy instances to honor deletion requests.
Even on Reddit there's been undeleters and archives since basically forever.
Even for regular websites, there's always the Internet Archive.
It's hardly a new problem: you always assumed the Internet was forever.