So say I make an account on lemmy.world and post a bunch of stupid comments around other instances then decide to delete my account because I’m ashamed of them. After I delete my account, a copy of all those comments I made on other instances remain on those instances as a “shadow copy.” There isn’t any way to actually delete them all. The copies of the comments/posts on your home instance will be deleted
tldr: Don’t say stupid shit on other instances you’ll regret later! They never leave that instance!
Why YSK: so you can think carefully about what to comment and post.
I migrated from beehaw. You can see my previous post history here: DM_Gold@beehaw.org
Can’t you edit those comments?
I think after recent example of beehaw defederation it’s possible that after instance defederates you lose control over your comments as they don’t synchronise anymore.