Didn’t you already repost this last month?
https://kbin.social/m/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world/t/26161/REPOST-Ex-s-divorce-lawyer-Send-3-years-of-complete-financials
kbin is newer and less polished. But yeah I personally recommend kbin over lemmy for exactly the reasons you posted.
Not sure, but account deletion is a manual process here. I suspect what actually happens is that the magazine is tranferred to the default owner / first admin account. On kbin.social that would be ernest.
See for example https://kbin.social/m/trans - a sub with few threads. I think the original owner successfully requested account deletion which is why that sub is owned by ernest now.
See also https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/258090/How-does-Delete-Account-work-currently
Not sure of the historical average time. It’s a manual process though so it will take some time for the admins to get to it.
I saw an example of this some months ago. It seems like the posts do get nuked, though with recent updates I’m not 100% certain that this is still the case. Again see /m/trans - most likely it was one of those subs where most of the threads were started by the owner posting, so when the owner’s account was deleted, so to did those threads and posts.
Actually it’s worse than this - as the entire thread is gone, including other commenters’ replies.