Partner and CEO of Find the Path Ventures (https://find-path.com). Voice actor, software engineer, and general nerd.

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  • The purpose of life is whatever you make it. Some people feel their purpose is to make as much money as they can, others to create art that will last for all time.

    There is no one purpose to life. There’s no cosmic point to it all, so we all just find out purpose.

    For me, my purpose is to find happiness. I suffer from depression so that’s my one goal. I find making people laugh makes me happy, so now I do a podcast where I make people laugh most of the time.








  • I’m not saying we shouldn’t be able to hard delete comments, I’m just explaining why the Lemmy developers might not have started with hard-deleting comments. I agree with you we should have the option and it should propagate regardless of any instance settings.

    My point in mentioning other servers not deleting your comments is that ActivityPub is an open standard. Technically someone can write a Lemmy competitor that federates with your instance and does not implement the hard deletion of comments. It’s allowable under the protocol. That doesn’t mean the feature isn’t worth implementing, it just means there are caveats to “this comment disappears off the Internet forever” like we’d like.


  • I host my instance exactly like this with Nginx Proxy Manager. Here’s my config:

    • Block Common Exploits and Websockets Support - on
    • Add a custom location with the following settings:
      • proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      • proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
      • proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $remote_addr;
      • real_ip_header X-Real-IP;
      • real_ip_recursive on;
    • for SSL turn on HTTP/2 Support

    I had to add the custom config so that I would get the IP address of the clients and federated servers. Otherwise I was hitting rate limits on the Lemmy server.





  • Software engineer here. Historically we started not hard-deleting anything because sometimes software does bad things and we never want to accidentally delete anything that could be important since then the only way to undo it is to restore the database from a backup. So it’s better/safer to literally not allow the application to ever delete anything from the database.

    That being said, I could see an option in ActivityPub to delete comments, but with the distributed nature of Lemmy you would have to trust every server you federate with to listed to the protocol and delete the comments too since they are stored on the other servers as well.