If I’m banned from a subreddit, I can still delete my comments there. Not so here. They could remain in a public-facing place that’s able to be indexed by search engines and that is entirely outside of my control at that point.
And the Lemmy devs are hostile to the very idea of allowing the option to permanently delete anything here. I mean, look at the OP – as much as people may dislike raddle, you are able to permanently delete your content there. If I delete something, that means I don’t want to restore it. That is the very definition of deletion.
This forum is unusually hostile to the idea of giving users control over our content.
the site owners can unilaterally decide to restore content users deleted
The legal grounds for doing so would be shaky in most places, and it would be an unquestionable violation of ethics. I’ve not had the experience on any other site of a comment that I’ve deleted being restored. If that were to happen, no one would use such a forum.
…or at least I assumed no one would use such a forum, up until recently when I keep seeing “but whatabout archives” used unironically here on Lemmy to handwave any discussion of privacy.
Here’s a good discussion about it: https://archive.ph/XeEMF
If I’m banned from a subreddit, I can still delete my comments there. Not so here. They could remain in a public-facing place that’s able to be indexed by search engines and that is entirely outside of my control at that point.
And the Lemmy devs are hostile to the very idea of allowing the option to permanently delete anything here. I mean, look at the OP – as much as people may dislike raddle, you are able to permanently delete your content there. If I delete something, that means I don’t want to restore it. That is the very definition of deletion.
This forum is unusually hostile to the idea of giving users control over our content.
The legal grounds for doing so would be shaky in most places, and it would be an unquestionable violation of ethics. I’ve not had the experience on any other site of a comment that I’ve deleted being restored. If that were to happen, no one would use such a forum.
…or at least I assumed no one would use such a forum, up until recently when I keep seeing “but whatabout archives” used unironically here on Lemmy to handwave any discussion of privacy.