Deleted comments still visible in Sync and possibly other clients. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How is this possible?

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Can you link to an example?

[+] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

[deleted]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Oof you're right

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've seen the back end, you're correct

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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

this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2024

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