• anachrohack@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I think people should not use websites where they cannot delete their own posts. I think it presents major security risks. Hackernews, for example, doesn’t allow users to delete posts beyond a certain date. Allegedly, you can email them to request your data be deleted, but they’ve never replied to my emails.

    • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe
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      22 hours ago

      I mean… You can’t delete your posts/comments on Lemmy, they are basically hidden for you and others, but can be easily restored and admins/mods can still access them, which means anyone can create an instance and just pull everything for whatever reason they want to. In that aspect we’re no different from reddit, which usually restores content every X months, but here it’s available for the taking any time.