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submitted 3 weeks ago by roofuskit@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Please don't expect the community to give you answers to your questions which you then delete right afterwards. Those of us who put time into answering your questions are not doing so just to serve your personal needs, we are here to help build a community knowledge base that others can search and reference.

This has become a chronic issue with Lemmy and its starting to feel like it's a waste of time to answer questions.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My guess was that it’s users who fundamentally misunderstand federation, and think that deleting their comments will prevent them from being scraped or used to ID them later. In reality, if someone was truly concerned about avoiding doxxing, they’d just switch accounts. Because anyone can spin up a single-user instance, federate to scrape content from all the communities they want, and then simply refuse to respect delete requests.

Because when you delete something on a Lemmy instance, the instance simply sends a delete request to all the other instances that federated with it. But those other instances can easily ignore the delete request and retain the deleted content for as long as they want.

That’s also part of why it’s so stupid that AI crawlers are scraping Lemmy and thrashing instance owners’ rate limits. The AI crawler could just set up a new instance and automatically gather the content via federation. But instead, they just send crawler bots. Because fuck the instance owners, I got my content either way and using a crawler bot didn’t require me to learn how federation works.

[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 4 points 3 weeks ago

My guess was that it’s users who fundamentally misunderstand federation, and think that deleting their comments will prevent them from being scraped or used to ID them later.

I really don't understand these people. If you don't want to be doxxed or scraped, stop participating online. It's that simple. Even if you participate in a private sub, it will eventually get scrapped.

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Huh. That's a smart idea (AI federated instance). I imagine Lemmy is too small for it to be on Big AIs radar very much (just yet)