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John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives (johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com)
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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The permadelete_for_creator function (called by the purge_user_account function, which is called by the delete_user_account handler when delete content is true) updates every comment of the user to contain the predefined text "Permanently Deleted".

delete_user_account: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/493734d1b3b60587208d56049e9c14b815c5d8d1/crates/api_crud/src/user/delete.rs#L35

purge_user_account: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/493734d1b3b60587208d56049e9c14b815c5d8d1/crates/api_common/src/utils.rs#L963

permadelete_for_creator: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/493734d1b3b60587208d56049e9c14b815c5d8d1/crates/db_schema/src/impls/comment.rs#L34

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

thanks, is there any app that implements this function?

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Thunder has a "Delete Account" option in the account settings.