EDIT: I suppose it should be alright if you mention in your privacy policy that if you interact with other instances their privacy policies apply as well.

[–] Laborer3652@reddthat.com 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Its not a guaranteed thing. As I understand it servers can simply choose to ignore the delete federation. I have never run a Lemmy server though, so take that with a tiny grain of salt.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but companies can also "choose" to ignore GDPR requests. I don't think talking about instances not following the spec and deleting things when requested is relevant.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Under normal circumstances. But there could be federation issues, or someone could run a custom version that just ignores all deletion requests.

I'm unsure if that's considered part of the diligence required in Europe.

Edit: does that even apply to public forums such as this? I have always treated it all as if it's public forever.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

it should