I had a friend as a kid.

Thank you for the insight! I’ll guess I’ll be polite here on lemmy until someone finds a way to handle it.

As a followup question: Would this not be against EU’s GDPR laws in some way?

This is what lemmy.world tells me when I want to delete my account:

“Warning: this will permanently delete all of your data from this instance. Your data may not be deleted on other, existing instances. Enter your password to confirm.”

Edit: So if we want to own our data we should only post, comment and vote within our own instance or just keep in mind that whatever we do on other instances might be there indefinitely.