I understand that users might want to remove any trace of their activities, but I think comments and posts being disassociated from their identity (similar to reddit, at least on the surface level) would give almost the same benefits to the user, while not deleting all of their contributions.

But my main problem with the current system is that all the posts get removed as well, and in this case her posts were popular and had a lot of comments, so it’s not like we’re giving users the ability to delete their own content, but also the comments written by others, which I think is unfair. I mean people took their time and gave their opinions on which phone and OS is more privacy friendly and other subjects (like a collabrative documentary about the fediverse), it’s not a good thing to delete their comments like this.

that being said I think the main loss here is that we lost one of the most active users :(