I enjoy deleting my old posts and comments, but it’s lot of work doing it individually, especially with comments. For other platforms there are apps you can login with, then delete old or all content, but I can’t find one for Lemmy. Does such a thing even exist?

  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    2 days ago

    This might be tricky, given that Lemmy is federated [1]; there’s no guarantee that deletions will be federated to all instances — eg an instance could defederate from the rest of the network after your content’s been pushed to it.

    References
    1. “Introduction”. Lemmy Documentation. Lemmy. Accessed: 2024-12-01T08:02Z. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/introduction.html.
      • ¶1

        Lemmy is a selfhosted, federated social link aggregation and discussion forum. […]

    • ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I can’t answer for OP, but for me personally, I like to delete my old stupid takes, and other than that, sometimes you have to share some personal info ( describe yourself, where you’re coming from… etc ) for the sake of having a healthy discussion, that could accumulate and leads to exposing your real identity to… say an employer

        • AliceA
          1·
          4 days ago

          Can’t you just edit the content and write ‘deleted’ then saving it? Won’t the federate everything to just say ‘deleted’ instead of actually deleting it which doesn’t delete it from all servers?

          • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            4 days ago

            I’ve found edits don’t federate consistently.

            Given that so much depends on the implementation details of the various instances I’m not sure anything more than a “best effort” is possible.

            I wouldn’t post anything that would be a problem.