That is to say if they are deleted do they persist on federated servers? If not where do you host images?

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    Not really, you should assume anything you post will be public and can’t be deleted. When you delete a post or comment, your server will ask others it’s federating with to also delete it, most of the time they will respect that. However, a server could just ignore the request and keep it anyway, there really isn’t anything that can be done about this unfortunately.

    Edit: Using another image host like imgur could give you more control to delete your images. However, it’s still fairly trivial for a server to just download the image while it’s up and store it locally.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m not really that concerned about images persisting- just prefer the ability to remove it from Lemmy(aka easily searchable)

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        Deleting posts does make them difficult to search, but it’s inevitable that at some point that there’ll be searchable Lemmy archives (probably already exists tbh), If your ok with that.