hi i just wanted to ask a question which is the following umm why, why does when you do delete a post in profile your main profile does it not get deleted?? like it gets deleted but in the main profile it gets a little trash can symbol red symbol, red symbol on the right!! which means that it’s been deleted but it still shows up in my profile history how can i delete it forever please?? thanks you so much!!!
As another commenter has said, this is likely just a feature of the interface and not a reflection of what other users see.
But you should keep in mind that, due to the nature of federation, your posts are copied to all other instances that are federated with yours—which in theory includes not just lemmy instances but any software implementing the ActivityPub protocol. Whether those instances actually remove posts you’ve marked as deleted is up to their discretion.
you’re right, so that means that the admins of the servers that each lemmy instance uses are responsible for deleting or purging deleted content that can be undeleted? thanks
I believe that an out-of-the-box lemmy instance will remove deleted content from federated instances automatically.
My point is just that site maintainers can modify the software to do whatever they want, or run software that implements ActivityPub but whose functionality is completely different from that of lemmy.
It would be really nice if this information was super explicit when one joins a community. In the default interfaces. And that users get a notification if community settings change.
It’s not a community setting or feature. It’s a fact of the internet.
If you publish something to someone else’s website, you no longer have any control over it. And federation means publishing your content on thousands of websites, many of them not even running the same software. Your comments are out there on mbin sites, Friendica sites, Hubzilla sites, Mastodon sites, Misskey sites, and many others. Someone’s pribably got a custom web server they developed, slapped some ActivityPub inside of it, and didn’t bother to make it even understand delete requests.
This is the internet. It is public, and it is forever. You really need to treat it as such.