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Why does deleting a post not actually delete it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm still new to how lemmy works exactly but why does trying to delete a post not actually remove it? It's still fully viewable so are you not able to delete posts on here at all? I'm a bit confused.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Others don't see the text of the comment though, it just says comment is deleted.

To answer your question, basically for Federation reasons (if I had to guess).

Its the same way with when you block someone, you're not blocking them from the seeing you, you're blocking yourself from seeing them. They can still respond to your comments and you wouldn't know they had.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If you click "source" on a deleted comment, you can see what was written before it was deleted on the Mlmym interface.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago

If you click “source” on a deleted comment, you can see what was written before it was deleted on the Mlmym interface.

Sounds like they're caching the comments, and not honoring the deletion request by removing the comment from their cache.

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

With the Sync app you can still see the comment if you hit "reply", as the reply view has a top box for reading the parent comment and making text selection and for some reason it retains the comment contents. Just an FYI

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's a shame. That's not a great way to do blocking, since it allows trolls to continue using your comments as a springboard for their bs.

It really should be a two-way block.