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Use Kbin at your own risk. Can’t delete account. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I signed up kbin.social but have since decided to go all in on Lemmy. I’ve tried all day to delete my account on kbin but it won’t let me. Once I click the delete confirmation pop up it simply reloads the feed and keeps your account.

Be warned. Currently you have no control over your data there. I think that settles it for me. I won’t be using that service again.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do these regulations even apply in this case? Lemmy is non-commercial and it’s a distributed. Who would the regulators even go after?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The other point is, how do you know which instances to go after to delete any content anyways? I think there is a way to see a list of federated servers, but there’s no way to know which has your data.

In theory you could send a takedown request to each of them, but that doesn’t seem helpful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Theoretically: the people hosting the instance you created an account with.

In practice: nobody is going to care