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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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The fact that other copies might be out there (assuming a crawler archived the particular page while a post was up) isn't a reason not to remove the copies you can control.
@KelsonV well, Lemmy is open source so you are free to run your own instance that deletes whatever you want from your own DB. But once it's out there, you can't necessarily un-publish information on the internet…
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By that logic, there's no point in ever deleting anything online, so why even bother with hiding them? Just leave everything up there forever, whether the person who wrote it still wants it to be there or not.
Also, not everyone has the time, programming skills and resources to just fork a project, never mind run their own server. That's not a constructive approach to a "this feature ought to work better" discussion.