In other words, can any user delete its data on its will and is there something that will remove its data from all the connected activitypub services? I believe this should actually be a basic feature and pretty much a requirement.

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[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 4 points 17 hours ago

Treat it similarly to how you should treat posting on any social media service.

If you make a post, that is federated to all kinds of other instances. They might process your delete request, or they might just ignore it and keep old posts stored for as long as they want. It's the same with if you make a post on Reddit, someone sends that thread's URL to the Internet Archive, and now there's a permanent record of your account there.

If you post publicly, expect it will be recorded by someone publicly viewing it, and it will not be guaranteed to be removed.