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[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] 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.