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.
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.
Nutomic, one of the original developers of Lemmy explains here that overwriting your post and deleting your account will remove the content permanently. Deleting a post individually will however leave its content in the database of the instance, for recovery purpose:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2977
However, If I recall correctly, I think that when creating a post if you upload an image then it is immediately put into the database whether or not the post is actually made. As a result I don’t think there is a way to overwrite these, so some trace would still remain in such an instance if I am not mistaken.
Furthermore none of this prevents or rectifies snapshots or backups of data being created by pretty much any entity - I know that’s probably not in the scope of the question, but just something tangentially related to keep in mind.
You can delete uploaded media since v.19 iirc.
There’s a media tab in your profile on supported clients where you can see and remove uploaded media files.
Missed that update, that’s great to know. Thanks!