I don’t think deleting old posts or comments can really be relied on to hide your data. Once it is out there it ends up in search indices, web archives,… so while it is a good additional safety mechanism it shouldn’t mean that you should freely post personal stuff.

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That is true to some extend (Though search engines would afaik correct 404 pages and delete the old fetched data), but the automatic deletion does stop part of the audience of having a lot of data to create a fingerprint.

true but any instance could be figured to ignore edit/delete requests, and/or the original content could still exist in backups

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