What information does a Lemmy server collect about its users?
When I delete a comment or post, is it truly deleted on the server?
Do deletions also propagate to federated servers?
There is no tracking built into Lemmy, however servers log IP addresses by default.
Posts and comments are not deleted from the server to allow restoring them later. However if you make an edit, it completely overwrites the content. Deleting the user account also deletes all content. Deletions are federated, but because this is a distributed system, there is no guarantee that deletions (or other actions) reach other instances.
It seems simliar to how reddit handles it where the comments just get a flag attached to them and the text is still stored. There was some hubbaloo about it a few years ago where people were saying to edit your comments first on reddit before deleting them
It is possible that deletions will not propagate to other servers if they are running a forked version of the software.
Yes, but I’m wondering what the expected behavior is.
Nothing on the internet is ever truly deleted. Surely you know this by now?
Yes, but I want to know what the code actually says, and I probably can’t figure it out for myself, so I’m asking.
