I forgot all about SRS, back in the day one of the first times a Reddit comment I wrote got a bunch of upvotes some SRS folks came after me and it was super confusing. I got really bizarre messages from angry people who seemed completely unhinged.

Good question. I think they do continue to exist on other instances, but I’m not completely sure. My understanding is that you could delete your comments and posts from other instances before you delete your account from your own instance. But I’m not sure if they get deleted automatically anywhere outside your instance when you delete your account.

Edit: I found a discussion with a Lemmy dev and it looks like “deletions are federated” - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2977

My understanding is that Lemmy accounts are currently locked to the Lemmy instance you created it on, if the instance goes away you lose your account too.

A simulacra shambles on.