My friendica account on venera.social was deleted months ago.
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My friendica account was deleted months ago. Yet I continue to see my posts floating around mastodon servers.
It appears to me if I want to delete a fediverse account, I'm going to have to send delete requests for every message on that account first, wait a week or three, then close out the account.
And it still probably won't fully work.
It shouldn't be like this, and normal users should be made aware of the risk.
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@box464
Well. I'm a firm believer that if you don't want something to be on the internet forever the most effective way to do it is just not post it. Once it is on the internet you don't own it anymore. -
@luks_1996 I believe the same, but when do good actors (servers) identify that the account no longer exists and drop the posts? If you attempt to find my account via webfinger it returns a not found. Surely there is a mechanism in place to say "well I've tried to ping this account/post 20 times over the past X months, and it keeps returning not found - I'm going to delete it and all its posts". Obviously a bad actor might not do the same, or a search engine gobbles it up if it's public.
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The reality is that anything publicly posted on the internet never truly disappears. It can be distributed, downloaded, saved, turned into a screenshot, etc.
Your options are:- Be careful what you post under your real name.
- Use the time honored tradition of posting under a pseudonym (pen name) instead of your real name.
- Participate in private discussion groups or forums that limit distribution of your posts.
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@scott I mostly follow those rules. I think what irks me is what happens when deleting an account or a post in activitypub isn’t clear, and differs across fediverse platforms.
That is what is confusing to normal users. You delete a Facebook post, sure someone could screenshot it or it could be internet archived but as far as a post sitting on your account profile goes, it’s gone. Not so on the fediverse.