How is this possible?

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        7·
        9 months ago

        Just like on Facebook, when you delete a comment on Lemmy it gets stuck with a “deleted” flag that’s possible to undo on some clients, including the official one last time I did it.

        To be fair, your incredulity is totally understandable. I think we should fix Lemmy too.

      • Gurfaild@feddit.de
        4·
        9 months ago

        That has nothing to do with federation - I can still read deleted comments that other users of my instance posted in local communities

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      I think part of the issue is that you can undo the deletion of your own posts, which is a nice feature to have.

      Maybe what we need is:

      • hide: does what “delete” does now
      • delete: with a warning that the action is irreversible

      Add in a warning when posting or commenting that hiding/deleting may not federate

      • Dave.
        5·
        9 months ago

        Content of deleted comment:

        Try this comment that I’m going to delete.

        I use boost as it shows deleted comments as “deleted by creator”, but you can reply to deleted comments and when you do you can see and quote it

        Just like I have now. So what I assume is happening is that the backend just marks the comment as deleted and leaves everything in place, and it’s up to the front end to handle that.

          • Dave.
            3·
            9 months ago

            Yeah - personally I don’t mind it this way. To me, “Deleted by creator” is simply something more along the lines of, “I’d like to retract my previous statement”.

            Sometimes I get curious and reply to a deleted comment to see what they said, but generally I let it slide.

            • LWD@lemm.ee
              41·
              9 months ago

              Sounds like you have too stable of a temperament to be a Lemmy server admin to me. Just wait until I tell you what I know about the guy who built a server just to downvote someone else on here, the one platform where downvotes don’t matter.

              spoiler

              This is not a bit. I found someone who did that.

              • Dave.
                3·
                9 months ago

                I can only look at that and dream of having such incredible levels of pettiness.

            • Gurfaild@feddit.de
              1·
              9 months ago

              The problem with that is that comments that are removed by moderators behave the same way - that might actually cause legal problems if someone posts something that you’re obligated to remove instead of just hiding it