In other words, can any user delete its data on its will and is there something that will remove its data from all the connected activitypub services? I believe this should actually be a basic feature and pretty much a requirement.

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      Good question!

      PieFed sends delete requests to every known server, including defederated ones. I’ve seen a ton of delete requests from Mastodon too, for accounts that don’t exist on PieFed so it looks like Mastodon does that too. No idea about other fedi platforms.

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        I’d be willing to bet there’s archiving going via software/servers that don’t obey deletion requests.

        Anything federated is public information.

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          There’s definitely a bot with a user agent like “fedi big data” doing some scraping in my server logs, does anyone know who that is?