How is this possible?
As far as I know, Lemmy doesn’t allow the deletion of content. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1b6g219/psa_you_cant_delete_photos_uploaded_to_lemmy_so/
You should however be able to overwrite your posts. So when you delete them, change every field to random nonsense.
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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.
That has nothing to do with federation - I can still read deleted comments that other users of my instance posted in local communities
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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
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Can you link to an example?
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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.
Oof you’re right
I’ve seen the back end, you’re correct
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.
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.
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This is not a bit. I found someone who did that.
I can only look at that and dream of having such incredible levels of pettiness.
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
