In other words, can any user delete its data on its will and is there something that will remove its data from all the connected activitypub services? I believe this should actually be a basic feature and pretty much a requirement.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 27 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You are technically correct but the fact is that 99.9% of federated activities, including delete requests, are processed normally and in the expected way. That is not "impossible to delete" that is "will be deleted except in exceptional circumstances".

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

So deleted everywhere except in the places you most wish it was deleted.

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What happens with servers that are defederared. Is that one of the 0.01%?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good question!

PieFed sends delete requests to every known server, including defederated ones. I've seen a ton of delete requests from Mastodon too, for accounts that don't exist on PieFed so it looks like Mastodon does that too. No idea about other fedi platforms.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'd be willing to bet there's archiving going via software/servers that don't obey deletion requests.

Anything federated is public information.

[–] admin@scrapetacular.ydns.eu 5 points 4 days ago

There's definitely a bot with a user agent like "fedi big data" doing some scraping in my server logs, does anyone know who that is?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

With how Lemmy handles deleted posts (and nuking access to the comments) I'm probably gonna make my own removeddit for Lemmy.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Even if things get deleted we‘re still on the internet and everything is posted public and exposed to being scrapped the second you submit something. Your anonymity is your best friend here, I think.