Deleting a Comment

freamon, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Removed by Mod vs. Deleted by User (sorry, this reply is in the wrong place)

freamon, 1 month ago

Lemmy let’s you un-delete anything you’ve deleted, so nothing really gets nuked (it seems to be the way these things work anyway, that it’s just a ‘deleted’ flag that’s flipped between true and false).

On the one hand, it’s a Lemmy problem - I can see you’re comment using the API:

<span style="color:#323232;">curl --request GET 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     --url 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/comment?id=8986376' 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     --header 'accept: application/json'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">=>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  "comment_view": {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    "comment": {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "id": 8986376,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "creator_id": 399371,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "post_id": 13748490,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "content": "See what i mean? I deleted this!",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "removed": false,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "published": "2024-03-31T09:48:22.897008Z",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "deleted": true,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "ap_id": "https://lemmy.world/comment/8986376",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "local": true,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "path": "0.8986376",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "distinguished": false,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      "language_id": 37
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     ...
</span>

But there’s also a bug with Sync in that it’s not checking the flag if someone try to reply.

victorz, 1 month ago

What’s the difference between removed and deleted in the response?

freamon, 1 month ago

Removed by Mod vs. Deleted by User

(you may have already seen this - my original reply went to the wrong place. Which is another Sync bug incidentally, when using the notification to reply (Android))

victorz, 1 month ago

Ah, of course. Makes sense. Thanks, friend!

(Wow, that’s a severe bug!)

ArmokGoB, 1 month ago

This seems like a massive problem. I should have the right to completely remove content I post.

example, 21 days ago

fwiw, every week or so there is a scheduled task that permanently overwrites contents of deleted comments.

fyi @freamon

freamon, 1 month ago

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.

can, 1 month ago

Overwrite then delete.

dog, 1 month ago

Due to the nature of Lemmy, nothing is ever truly deleted as it gets federated across multiple different instances.

It may eventually sync across most.

Deleting tends to only delete it on that instance, hence why when you reply to a deleted one, chances are you see it from your current instance’s cache. Or vice versa.

kamenlady, 1 month ago

This makes sense, i wasn’t aware of the extended effects of federation.