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Leaving

You can leave a space at any time, and you can delete your account.

When you leave a space​

You lose access to the space's contents. Content you created stays in the space, attributed to you. You also leave the space's chat rooms, and you stop getting its email broadcasts. That unsubscribe stays in place if you rejoin, so resubscribe if you want them back.

Choose Leave space from the space's menu. A few things to know first:

  • Admins and owners step down first. Lower your own role to member, then leave. The last owner has to make someone else an owner before stepping down. See Roles & permissions.
  • Paid groups. Leaving cancels your subscriptions to the space's groups, and you keep access until the end of the period you paid for. See Paid membership & unlocks.
  • Coming back depends on how the space lets people in. If anyone can join, you can rejoin from its page. Otherwise you'll need a new invitation, or to apply again. See Joining & access.

When you're removed or banned​

An admin can remove you from a space, which takes effect immediately — the space is no longer visible to you. Being removed doesn't take away paid access you bought, though like leaving it stops a subscription from renewing — so rejoining is possible if the space lets you back in, and picks a canceled renewal back up if you return before the paid period ends.

A ban additionally prevents you from rejoining, even with an invite — which also makes the canceled renewal final. As with leaving, content you created stays in the space.

When you delete your account​

Deleting your account is permanent — there's no undo, and no way to recover the account afterward. Signing in with the same email later starts a fresh, empty account; it doesn't bring anything back.

If you're the only owner of a space, you can't delete your account until you make someone else an owner of that space or delete it. Deleting a space has its own conditions: its treasury has to be empty and no sale can still be waiting to pay out through a split. See Deleting a space.

What happens:

  • Your profile is gone. Content you made remains in its spaces, shown as belonging to a deleted account.
  • You're out of every space, and your subscriptions stop.

Before you delete, wrap up your money: withdraw your wallet balance and download anything you've purchased — a deleted account can't come back for them.

To keep a copy of everything else, request an export of your data and download it before you delete.

Your protocol identity is a separate question from your DFOS account, and an exit key is how that identity continues beyond it. It has to be added while the account still exists — see Exit keys.