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Merge pull request #7623 from annando/issue-870 

Issue 870: Clarified description of the account removal activity
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You will need to be logged in at the time. You will need to be logged in at the time.
You will be asked for your password to confirm the request. You will be asked for your password to confirm the request.
If this matches your stored password, your account will immediately be blocked to all probing. If this matches your stored password, your account will immediately be marked as deleted.
Unlike some social networks we do **not** hold onto it for a grace period in case you change your mind. There is no grace period, this action cannot be reverted.
All your content and user data, etc is instantly removed. Most of your content and user data will be deleted shortly in the background.
For all intents and purposes, the account is gone in moments.
We then send out an "unfriend" signal to all of your contacts. We then send out a notification about the account removal to all of your contacts so that they can do the same with their copy of your data.
This signal deletes all content on those networks.
Unfortunately, due to limitations of the other networks, this only works well with Friendica contacts. For technical reasons some of your user data is still needed to transmit this removal message.
We allow four days for this, in case some servers were down and the unfriend signal was queued. This remaining data will be deleted after a period of around seven days.
After this, we finish off deleting the account.
To disallow impersonation we have to save your used nickname, so that it can't be used again to register on this node.