So say I make an account on lemmy.world and post a bunch of stupid comments around other instances then decide to delete my account because I’m ashamed of them. After I delete my account, a copy of all those comments I made on other instances remain on those instances as a “shadow copy.” There isn’t any way to actually delete them all. The copies of the comments/posts on your home instance will be deleted

tldr: Don’t say stupid shit on other instances you’ll regret later! They never leave that instance!

Why YSK: so you can think carefully about what to comment and post.

I migrated from beehaw. You can see my previous post history here: [email protected]

    • randomperson@kbin.social
      7·
      2 years ago

      I think after recent example of beehaw defederation it’s possible that after instance defederates you lose control over your comments as they don’t synchronise anymore.

    • DM_Gold@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yes you should be able to edit the comments. But those edited comments will remain in those other servers. Also if you make a ton of comments do you really want to edit them all?