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Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by purple_mimosa@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.

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[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Mods and admins can remove posts and they don't stay on the server. If you delete it yourself, then it stays. Comments stay deleted, though and is replaced with a 'deleted by creator' message.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 5 points 11 months ago

Mods and admins can remove posts but they do stay only if they're "removed". But if they're "purged", then they're deleted from the server.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

I noticed a lot of clients like sync try and hide that fact. Poorly