A screenshot, taken way before rexxit, of two comments on reddit, dated “1 year ago”.

The first comment is by a deleted user and the comment has been removed. The second comment is a reply to the deleted comment and it says: “That solved it. Thanks!”

Edit: added temporal context.

  • Falmarri@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The history is likely saved forever. And an instance could be modified to not respect the update and deletions pretty easily

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      1 year ago

      Sure, but it would border on illegal. At the very least, they would have to be far more carefull about GDPR and California law.

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        1 year ago

        Not sure that’s true. I would think you would have to contact the instance owner to request to delete your data. And you’d have no idea they were even federating

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          1 year ago

          When you send a gdpr request to an instance, it is required to forward it to all parties it shared data with. So all instances it federates with.

          But I am not talking about gdpr requests but data usage. Intentionally not removing data a user requested to be removed would get you in truble with the legitimate use (part of consent) requirements.