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What I personally would like to see, and which PieFed now offers (though it did not at the time I made this meme, an entire day and a half ago! 😂) is for people to own their own content.

So in that case, yes you could blank out your own words, and choosing to delete the content would do that for you automatically, in both the title and text and any links associated with the post.

However, the responders would likewise have the ability to own their own words as well. So you as the OP wouldn't get the power to delete other people's words.

If someone doxxed you though, that already is covered under existing rules - you would just file a report on the content in question. They don't have the right to do that, even if you were the one who did it first.

And that is all that you, as a general purpose user, could accomplish... at least on your own. Then mods and admins have higher privileges, so in such a case where deletion of your own words is considered to be insufficient, and the other parties are unresponsive to requests to delete their responses to you (or among one another) then you would want to request from mods that they, acting on your behalf but under their own discretion and authority, arbitrate that disagreement in favor of deletion of the full post, or maybe deletion of a handpicked subset of the answers would be sufficient.

And this is already how it works now (again, I mean here the "now now", not the "then now" when I started this post) - I think users can only delete their own content, whereas mods have the choice to either remove the post or else entirely delete it.

Of course, if someone were to save the original doxing material on their own - by saving a screenshot, submitting to an archive service, printing to a PDF, copying and pasting, etc. - then there is only so much that PieFed could do in such a case. Chiefly in helping to avoid spreading it further.