Can someone explain to me, why, whenever you delete your comment or posts on lemmy.world, you are still able to find the comments or deleted posts using mastodon by finding the user and you can still browse through the deleted posts or comments by that person? Do they ever get deleted? And if not, what’s the point of having a delete button 😅Thanks
I think they just get marked as deleted, and what is supposed to happen is that the deleted comment gets picked up through federation and the destination server should delete their local copy. Sounds like that isn’t happening between Lemmy and Mastodon.
thanks for explaining, that’s kinda concerning to me personally
I also noticed that whenever you delete a comment, with the Liftoff app on Android you can open a menu of the deleted comment, click “Nerd stuff” and still read what the comment said. This means that the contents of the comment are never actually deleted. It’s simply tagged as deleted but the content is still there. I think you can currently only counteract that by editing your comment first, then removing it.