I’m pretty confused about one thing.
When deleting your own comment, there always stays a placeholder in its place. I noticed this with my own and other lemmings posts.
So far so good, but i tried to reply to a deleted comment by another lemming and above the reply box was the full comment the other user deleted.
I mean the full content of the comment that was deleted.
Is this the normal behavior in Lemmy or is it Sync?
I mean, i want my deleted comments to disappear and not just hidden and for everyone available to read.
Please try it out and reply to my deleted comment in this post. Just above the reply textarea you’ll see my deleted comment.
This seems like a massive problem. I should have the right to completely remove content I post.
If it’s something you feel strongly about, then for this reason, and the usual federation reasons, it’s probably better to overwrite your content with “[deleted]” or something, rather than delete it.
fwiw, every week or so there is a scheduled task that permanently overwrites contents of deleted comments.
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