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Nath@aussie.zone 10 months agoKeeping in mind that this is new to us, we’re learning as it happens.
Deleting your account doesn’t appear to actually delete your posts/comments. It appears to just kill your profile page, making it so you can’t just go to /u/username and see your post/comment history. However you can still go past posts and see the previous user interaction.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Their comments in this thread are what made me notice it. Maybe they did actually deliberately choose to delete those, but I thought it seemed unlikely to be that, in context.
Nath@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I should create and kill a user account to experiment and answer this authoritatively. Given that unionagainstdhmo’s posts and comments appear to have gone, while Baku’s have not, I suspect there is an option to delete all your content when you delete your account.
treevan@aus.social 10 months ago
@Nath @Zagorath I read 30 days. Mine took 30 days to delete from other instances, instantly from the home instance. One instance they reappeared and I contacted the Administrator to have them removed.
He said it was a bit of a fuck around to delete them from the database and it appears I was banned from server, not that I quit.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Oh, I’m glad I left this thread open to come back to later! Otherwise I wouldn’t have seen that Treevan still lives! Hope you’re doing well. Your contributions around here are sadly missed.
lodion@aussie.zone 10 months ago
When banning a user we’re presented with a tickbox option to remove all posts/comments from them. Likely the admin did this rather than delve into the DB.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I’m dealing with a similar issue on !environment@aussie.zone . I didn’t think ahead to copy those two stickied posts containing all the source links at the top of the page.
Now it seems i’ve lost them? Its a shame to lose all that useful work u/treevan and u/bandhmo did. I’ve started pulling together a number of links to recreate something similar, but i know i won’t capture the vast plethora of resources they’d gathered.
treevan@aus.social 10 months ago
Gorgritch: I still have the links stored away. I'll try a code block if no one minds me messing up the thread?
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Hooli dooli, Treevans on Mastodon! Hi, good to see ya!
Okay, this is great news! I’ve just been trying to understand what code blocking is. I’m not sure I understand it, but as long as the admins are fine with it, I definitely don’t mind the thread getting a little messy (temporarily?) to sort this.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I don’t know what the state of the Internet Archive is with the recent attacks but you could try to find a cached copy of those posts with the Wayback Machine.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 10 months ago
got them, thanks for that.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Oh good idea. Never done that before. I’ll go on tonight and have a look