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.

  • morgunkorn
    30·
    7 months ago

    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

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      20·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        10·
        7 months ago

        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.