I found a way to retrieve the text of comments deleted by user or mod. I don’t think it is an issue of federated instances not respecting the deletion.

Is it a bug?

Or is “deleting” always really just “hiding”?

  • glans [it/its]@hexbear.netOP
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    7 months ago

    Ya but it’s unusual to be doing that.

    In tests I was able to retrieve the text of comments deleted a year ago, when I had never even participated in lemmy. Certainly I have no archive of anything and if I did it wouldn’t extend so far back.

    I think it’s fair to allow people to get rid of the low-hanging fruit if they want. Even though the internet is forever. Depending on the threat model, it might be good enough.