> Unfortunately under these laws the issue isn’t yours or your projects. It was the users.
Are you sure? How it comes reddit implemented this differently?
The argument that the issues is owned by the creator might be true, but on the other hand the user creates the issue at a "foreign" project and knows that they don't "own" this conversation. Especially the comments in these issues are not "owned" by the issue creator. This does not make any sense, especially as it is a public issue.
User data removal requests are handled separately from user initiated account deletion. On Reddit you can find old threads where all of one person’s posts are removed.
> but on the other hand the user creates the issue at a "foreign" project and knows that they don't "own" this conversation.
Unfortunately it doesn’t matter what you, I, or the user thinks is right at time of creation.
The only thing that matters is what the law says or implies. Users who invoke these laws often no longer care or even feel like they’re doing a good thing by hurting the original site in removing something they created.
They may have been legally obligated in some jurisdiction.
Unfortunately under these laws the issue isn’t yours or your projects. It was the users.
There are a lot of unintended side effects like this.