You can delete and edit comments on lemmy. But that doesn’t mean all severs or users will honour that request. Same is true for reddit, hence why it is possible to see deleted reddit comments on 3rd party websites. (And deleted tweets, etc. on other sites.)
People post on lemmy for the purpose of sharing thoughts and ideas with the world. If your stuff is private: don’t post it! This is true for all social media. Also note, lemmy doesn’t ask for your phone number or other unrelated personal information.
Virtually anything you post on the internet is eternal. A better example would be your upvotes as they are also synchronized according to instance admins - something many people do not expect.
Well, for one Lemmy has zero respect for privacy. You can’t even delete a comment. A comment is eternal. At least you can do that on reddit.
I made an account here without an email address (I done that on reddit too but you can’t anymore)
I can use various websites to view deleted reddit comments
I would never consider anything that I have let leave my device as “deleted” anyway
If you expect privacy on social media you should take an iq test
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You literally can’t. People have deleted their whole comment histories and have them restored by reddit admins.
Virtually anything you post on the internet is eternal. A better example would be your upvotes as they are also synchronized according to instance admins - something many people do not expect.