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How can I permanently delete a community I created? (lemmy.ml)
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How can I permanently delete a community I created?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

All actions (except for user deletion), including deleting, removing, etc are reversible.

We have an issue for allowing admins to purge content from the DB. The reason for not allowing users to do this, is a community is usually filled with not just your content, but posts, comments from many other users. A DB delete would delete all that data.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Honestly, I think it's better to delete all the data than to maintain a "ghost" community: example https://lemmy.ml/c/testi. The same applies to "deleted" comments.