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I've seen this "deletion is not guaranteed on lemmy" warning shouted loudly and often by a few individuals over the past month or two, mostly on reddit. It makes no sense in context, because deletion is not guaranteed on reddit, either. Or on any other public forum.
For the record, lemmy devs addressed it in a discussion here.
I'm starting to think it's propaganda sponsored by reddit, hoping to scare people out of leaving.
Reddit is required by EU law to delete all of your data if you ask them to (and you're an EU citizen). I suspect it's much harder to do on the fediverse, though in theory they're subjected to the same law.
Reddit can only delete their own copy, not the copies made by other parties. That's the reality of public media.