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I'm sure the API supports it. If there isn't a tool already, someone should make one. For infosec purposes, think of these two things to balanve expectations:
Deleting history to prevent leaking any level of personal info is good, as is rotating accounts, because it limits exposure and makes it harder for someone else to "connect the dots".
You should assume that anything you post to a website is permanently archived somewhere. If a public website like this one, a person could simply archive hexbear once a day with little effort. Federated instances basically do this in real time. Basically every stateful website uses a database and users have no control over what happens to the data in it - we just hope that admins are careful.
It shouldn't be too difficult, I've made other shitty python scripts to do stuff with the API, I can whip up one in an hour? or something.
Nice! I don't know if I personally need it yet so don't do any work just for me, ha! But parent might want it!
I kinda wanna make it, just because I am unsure how technical the userbase is going to be so I need to add logging with messages describing whats happening, and I already have ideas for some stupid ones ("I'm being rate-limited, literally 1984", "honk shu mimimi")
Haha nice
It surely supports it, because before we had federation the delete button used to just delete posts and comments but not the account
I'm sure! Deleting or editing any post must go through the API. Just need whatever authentication/authorization mechanism is needed, which for Lemmy (I believe) is a JWT.
Yup.
It's also the part I have never touched and am therefore unsure about.