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I "deleted" my lemmy.ml account, how long til scraps/cache of my old posts follow suit? Or will it float there till admins clean up? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by asunaspersonalasst@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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Hello.

So when I was still on lemmy.ml, I tried to delete my posts/comments but most of them keep having them JSON error, then when I refreshed my account they somehow do not appear anymore? But when I manually inspected the communities that I was subbed into on another browser, some of my posts are still there.

Giving up after thinking that I just ignore it, I just deleted my avatar and banner, and deleted most of my posts/comments anyway. They seem to not appear when I am logged on.

Then, I somehow got onto the 'Delete Account' earlier this morning (just as I wanted to do several days ago), submitted the credential needed, and then the page redirected me onto homepage. But now when I did revisited the communities I was in on my .ml account, posts/comments are still there.

Did the admin just set it up so that my logins are just revoked, and will not purge and/or disassociate my posts and comments on my previous .ml account?

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[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It should take 30 days for your data to be scrapped after an account deletion: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2977

[–] irdc@derp.foo 4 points 2 years ago

This isn’t easy to do yourself: thing is, the way you identified yourself as being “you”, an asymmetric cryptographic key pair associated with your account, got deleted when you removed your account.

If your posts and comments don’t contain any personally identifiable information (that is: no-one can tell it was you who made them) I’d just let it be. Otherwise this is going to be difficult.

[–] asunaspersonalasst@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Addenum:

Even my profile picture and banner got reinstated.

Do I request to GDPR my data?

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 16 points 2 years ago

You can try, but the reality is all of your activity gets replicated to every instance. You should assume that it's permanently out there.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There was a discussion about GDPR on mastodon github, and they seemed to conclude that GDPR does not apply to natural persons, which includes most instance admins who aren't corporations or any entities, but just random people not profiting from anything.

Not sure how valid, since they aren't lawyers.

[–] Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That doesn't sound right. But then again, like someone else already said: If they aren't in the EU and don't have dealings with them (because they aren't large companies), who is going to enforce it?