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Are there any good Lemmy tools to easily but properly nuke your history yet? Like PowerDeleteSuite works for Reddit? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It just feels kind of gross having parts of me hanging out on the internet for too long. Like I haven't been able to wash my hands/face for a while. I do it manually occasionally, but I have to block off a morning or evening for it now when I used to be able to do it with a couple mouse clicks then go off to take a shit or w/e.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't think so, I think people are more concerned with having tools to switch their username/posts/comments from one server to another.

Also, in general, if you don't want it "on the internet too long" you probably just shouldn't post it. Anyone can scrape that data in the time it was posted. It's never really gone if someone else doesn't want it gone. *shrugs

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... the concept of "deleted" was never really a thing on the internet and I don't think it is still. If you don't want it to be on the internet forever... don't post it. Lemmy is pseudoanonymous, just choose a different username and 99% likely no one will ever know it's you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't wash my hands at work to be sterile (most of the time). "Sterile" is different from "clean" in the terms I'm formally educated in. To follow that analogy I just want my info to be "clean." I want to remove most of the stuff from immediate public access periodically. I utilize other stuff too like periodically changing usernames and whatnot, same as I change an isolation gown or strip and wash my clothes as soon as I get home. None of that guarantees perfect removal of 100% of microbes, and this won't prevent all people ever from accessing my info. But that's no reason to never even rinse my digital ass. I just want a digital-ass bidet, not a digital autoclave.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I want a real ass autoclave.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hear the instantpot was actually a common solution for remote medical facilities before they went under. Any pressure cooker would do though, as I understand it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

How do I get my ass in a pressure cooker?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't wash my hands at work to be sterile (most of the time). "Sterile" is different from "clean" in the terms I'm formally educated in. To follow that analogy I just want my info to be "clean." I want to remove most of the stuff from immediate public access periodically. I utilize other stuff too like periodically changing usernames and whatnot, same as I change an isolation gown or strip and wash my clothes as soon as I get home. None of that guarantees perfect removal of 100% of microbes, and this won't prevent all people ever from accessing my info. But that's no reason to never even rinse my digital ass. I just want a digital-ass bidet, not a digital autoclave.