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My deleted posts won't go away! (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Josselin@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Hi I've just arrived on Lemmy but I'm already talking shit and people hate me like when I say Twitter is better than Mastodon (sorry I'm an idiot). But now I want to delete my post because I don't assume but it won't go away!!!! Can someone explain to me how the delete system works? Thanks a lot.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a federated service deletions can take time to federate out to other instances. It's also good practice to first edit the post/comment away before deletion.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

It's strange that no Lemmy client does this automatically

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Firstly, edit the post to remove the text, then save it. Henceforth, if it doesn't delete, it's empty.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 5 months ago

With everything you put onto the internet remember that the services don't have to delete what you want to remove. And chances are also good that someone archived what you said before editing or deleting.

And I guess with Lemmy and other federated services it should be relatively easy to set up a server that does not honor deletion requests at all.