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?
I enjoy deleting my old posts and comments
You do you I guess
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
- “Introduction”. Lemmy Documentation. Lemmy. Accessed: 2024-12-01T08:02Z. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/introduction.html.
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Lemmy is a selfhosted, federated social link aggregation and discussion forum. […]
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Even if the deletion request is federated - what stops me from using a modified server that ignores them and stores them anyways?
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- “Introduction”. Lemmy Documentation. Lemmy. Accessed: 2024-12-01T08:02Z. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/introduction.html.
If you don’t mind answering, out of curiosity, why do you want to mass delete your old comments?
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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?
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.
