I like sharing my thoughts and struggles here, but I don’t want it to be a permanent digital footprint and wish to delete all the posts and comments one day.
Harder here than on centralized platforms because everything you posted here has been copied to other servers which might ignore your requests to delete things.
Is there any such lemmy alternative with similar crowd?
You could continue using Lemmy.
To maintain anonymity:
Create a new account over Tor or No-Log VPN, never log in using a Real IP address, never share personal identifiable information, and never share your username (or instance name) with anyone IRL.
When using any public forum, you cannot resonably expect privacy, but anonymity is what you should be looking for.
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If you used Tor or a Reputable No-Log VPN, just check the “delete all posts and comments” and delete your account. You should be safe.
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If not, then ask your instance admin to delete logs of your IP and then delete your account along with all posts and comments. If they follow through, you should be safe.
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If you don’t use Tor or VPN, and your admin refuses, or lies to you about deleting the IP, then you have no recourse but to go to settings, check the box, and delete your account, and hope your adversaries don’t gain the cooperation of your instance admin (e.g. Legal Orders to obtain information).
Edit: The info isn’t gonna be completely gone, but if you didn’t post any personal identifiable information, it’s just a random stranger’s post on the internet, not attributed to you.
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No.
As redwizard said, you can edit all your posts and request a purge, but that doesn’t mean that the administrators of instances federated with yours will actually do so.
It’s also trivial to have a private fork whose purge process is “log that a purge was requested for the following db items”.
Federation means you can never vanish. Even if it did, people screenshot stuff now more than ever.
Edit all your posts then request a purge.
You should be able to contact your admins so they purge your account. Purged accounts have all the content they ever published scrubbed from all databases on Lemmy. I’m not entirely sure how it works if there’s an instance that is defederated from your home instance after you post something and it gets federated to them, I assume it wouldn’t be deleted in that case so it would still be available online there, but certainly a lot harder to track down.
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Even if you managed to delete the posts from all federated servers, they will still be archived in various places like the wayback machine and similar.
Better to only post what you’re comfortable sharing forever.
