YSK That if you delete your lemmy account, your comments/posts made on other instances will remain there forever.
So say I make an account on lemmy.world and post a bunch of stupid comments around other instances then decide to delete my account because I'm ashamed of them. After I delete my account, a copy of all those comments I made on other instances remain on those instances as a "shadow copy." There isn't any way to actually delete them all. The copies of the comments/posts on your home instance will be deleted
tldr: Don't say stupid shit on other instances you'll regret later! They never leave that instance!
Why YSK: so you can think carefully about what to comment and post.
I migrated from beehaw. You can see my previous post history here: DM_Gold@beehaw.org
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That's true.
But, everyone should be working from the assumption that whatever they put on the internet is there forever anyway.
Everyone should also know that anything on the internet can completely disappear at any time without warning
And people are trying to remove their Reddit history now.