As long as a deleted post is no longer visible in the publicly-accessible parts of the site, that would be enough verification for me.

I don’t know how the GDPR authorities verify compliance with mainstream proprietary closed source apps, do you?

Yes, although the server will not ignore the deletion activity if that server is running Lemmy. We’re talking about Lemmy here, not the fediverse as a whole. OP singled out Lemmy in the post title and said “lemmy devs are not concerned with…”

I’m sure there is more to be done in this area. It’d be great to know for sure which software treats deletion activities properly (I’m really unsure about Kbin, I think it does not) and which does not so instance admins can make informed decisions about who they federate with. Perhaps this information could be made available right within the UI that Lemmy admins use to control their instance, rather than an obscure documentation page somewhere…

IMO having deletes federate should be part of a minimum standard all fediverse software has to meet (plus mod tools, spam control, csam filters, etc) before it is allowed to federate but obviously we’re nowhere near having that sort of social organisation.

OP is simply incorrect.

I’m coding a Lemmy alternative right now and have been testing this functionality out extensively. Deletes of posts and comments certainly federate, I’ve seen the AP traffic to make it happen. Also, the docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/05-federation.html#delete-post-or-comment

I haven’t tested what happens when the ‘delete account’ button is clicked… Mastodon solves this by sending a ‘delete this user’ Activity to every fediverse instance so there’s nothing about ActivityPub that makes removing an account and all it’s posts in one go impossible.

Here is his profile https://sh.itjust.works/u/dramaticcat

A whole bunch of 8kun / 4chan garbage. If that’s not against the rules, it should be.

The initial enthusiasm is wearing off.

Check out these graphs (scroll down) https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They don't show October yet, but there are some downward trends visible.

Check out Matomo

Code does not exist in isolation from the community of developers that produced it. Who we collaborate with defines us, to some degree.

This isn't a censorship issue. This is a choice about whether to publicise and promote pedophiles or not. No website has a right to be included in join-lemmy listings.

They're authoritarian leftists, who support Putin. They have more in common with fascists than most people do.

How long has it been there? Months?

The lemmy.ml devs were ok with Nazi instances being on join-lemmy "because people can just choose to join a different instance if they want" (or words to that effect) so it'll be interesting to see how far they take that line of reasoning.

By all means, put some effort in. Please.

The issues you raised about those sites were fixed within two hours.

https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

Would you still want this if All was less of a dumpster fire? E.g. if a community like /c/Memes could be excluded?

When someone creates a new discussion in a merged community, which servers would it be posted to? All? Of only one of them, wouldn’t it be confusing for the user to suddenly have to choose? What if the component communities have different moderation policies?

…or maybe rapidapi.com

The ActivityPub protocol makes it possible, but most apps only make use of the pieces of ActivityPub that suit them. For example, in Lemmy they lean heavily on the Group actor type as the basis for Communities, which Mastodon doesn’t use at all. Peertube creates content using the Video activity type, while Mastodon only creates content in the form of a Note activity. Lemmy produces a lot of Link activities, which get rendered into a Note when viewed in Mastodon. And so on.

It’s all a work in progress and I’m confident integration will get better over time. The framework is there.

Kbin has limited support for Mastodon posts but it’s UI is still very much focused on the reddit-style functionality.

https://cloudisland.nz/about is a paid Mastodon server.

You could use it as part of your infrastructure. E.g. DNS server, database server, redis server, file server. But running the whole stack will be too much unless you upgrade the RAM. 1 GB minimum, preferably 2.

Yup. You need to use a third party service like https://lemmyverse.net/communities and then subscribe.

There’s no reason why this functionality can’t be built into lemmy/kbin in future. It’s on the feature wishlist for the lemmy/kbin clone that I’m building.

You got it.

This is a limitation of the ActivityPub protocol so similar kinds of behaviour / problems shows up in mastodon, etc as well. Until someone subscribes, it doesn’t exist locally and posts don’t start to flow unless there is a subscriber.