Comment by eqvinox
10 months ago
Actually… I'm really not a fan of how Mastodon handles account deletion. I've interacted with him there about a week ago, and all of his posts are now missing from those threads. I guess it makes sense from a "be able to change your ways and not be stuck with ancient bad things you did" perspective, and there's a right to deletion/"be forgotten" in some legal frameworks, but this hinders necessary community processes. At least the LKML mails are permanent…
I would've liked to link a post or two of his to show just how little flexibility and tolerance there was from his end regarding his social interactions, even when being questioned about them in an outside context and in a reasonably neutral manner. Ohwell…
When you delete something, your instance sends Delete events to other instances. Well behaved instances respect this request, but you could have an instance that does not.