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?
I find it amusing and ironic that the overall sentiment seems to be “just leave your comments around or delete them all manually, which may not work; who really cares?” given the backlash reddit has received and continues to receive around account/comment deletions (and forceful restorations). And especially given the downright clinical paranoia around privacy that seems to permeate many areas of Lemmy.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve stopped going to reddit altogether over the fiascos of last year, so I’m in no way suggesting they’re any better (and are arguably worse).
Truth is, anything published publicly to the Internet can be backed up and be made impossible to delete. With Reddit, it’s more that they’re a centralized corporation profiting off your content, so it makes sense to not want them specifically to profit off it. But if someone’s goal is to have it be gone gone, then they’re misguided.