Update:
#Purism has decided not to honor my request to be removed from their #purismforums and has instead stated:
We will not delete the anonymized accounts or posts
To #purismforum users, I do not consent to any of what has happened, and I recommend abandoning that site.
To users who stay there, never link to my projects or my socials and never mention me, my socials, or my projects ever again.
For those wondering:
I find myself in this situation because transphobic posts harassing me were allowed to remain on that site while Purism moderators removed, hid, or censored some of my responses. My posts were calm, civil, and respectful, while many of the posts directed at me were none of those things. Purism's moderators decided that it is acceptable for users to repeatedly post transphobic insults directed at a trans user, while it is strictly unacceptable for any user to say the word "fuck" in any context, including in a hidden thread that exists for discussions centered around the "politics" of pronouns.
Goodbye and good riddance
It seems they’re implying they needn’t worry you’d lodge a complaint with your DPA for an apparent GDPR article 17 violation since your content was effectively “anonymized.”
IANAL but that sounds like a theory that is easily tested.
they did specifically assert that they aren't violating GDPR, and yet they are. it's not possible to "anonymize" my data, especially when it contains my writing/typing style and displays it publicly and permanently.
This is strange, in the past with other staff members that are no longer there. You could have your account deleted at your request.
I should know because I was one of those staff members.
Here is an example of a forum account I deleted at the persons request, when I was there.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/foss-phone-companies/16420/50
https://forums.puri.sm/t/foss-phone-companies/16420/56
So this policy is new. And in place sometime in the last 5 months.
But there are precedents.
@joao
@Septimaeus
yes, i brought it to their attention that other users had been allowed to be forgotten, but they are determined to claim ownership of my words on that site and have denied my request for deletion.and they have also denied me the right to delete my own posts one-by-one.
in the mean time, i've set my repos to private and am completely disengaging with those people.