Looking to leave Lemmy and I’d like to erase my presence here if possible, can this be done? I’ve looked into it and from what I’ve seen, the suggested method is to just not post any more. Which is easy enough, but will I have to manually remove ALL content for all of my accounts in other to remove myself entirely from here?

  • x1gma@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2977

    According to the lemmy devs, deleting your account also overwrites and purges your comments and posts. This deletion is being federated - but other servers may choose to ignore it, be buggy, down or whatever, and therefore not fully deleting your content there.

    Since lemmy is decentralized, that’s as close to a full deletion as you’ll get, and to quote your rationale, that’ll be the only bridge you’ll be able to burn.

    Side note: Why are several of you so aggressive on a simple question? If they want to leave the platform and delete their content, why shouldn’t they, especially since that is absolutely non-trivial on a decentralized platform?

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
      4·
      10 months ago

      It just internet being internet. I noticed a lot of user is very defensive on some topic to the point of being absolutely toxic about it when disagreement pops up. The general good vibe of lemmy has gone downhill compared to when the reddit migration started.

      • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.caOP
        2·
        10 months ago

        Totally agree. It’s seemingly everywhere too. Even on the positive communities. Aside from that I’ve had accounts banned from communities for simply disagreeing with the narrative of a post and providing a different perspective.

        People don’t want to be shown that there is any other way, or that anyone believes differently that what the hive wants here and that to me, flies in the face of what Lemmy was supposed to be about and is incredibly ironic considering the types of things that sets these people off.

    • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.caOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      Thank you so much for the info. I greatly appreciate it. And the point you made about everyone being so aggressive is exactly why I’m wanting to leave Lemmy. They attack, then accuse me of being the bad guy when I defend myself like someone just did.

      I was actually accused of being the asshole. Because i snapped back at the vitriol.

      EDIT: was also just accused of something called “sea lioning” you cannot make this shit up.