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PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude
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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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You can't delete any text in comments or posts either - or at least not reliably, as any federated instance could choose to ignore deletions.
You should basically consider what you write or post here public, and probably public for good. But here's the thing - same goes for the entire rest of the Internet as well, basically.
And seemingly nothing is actually deleted, just hidden. Boost for Lemmy currently has an interesting bug where any comment, deleted or removed, can still be seen by simply selecting "copy post text" from the menu, as the API will return what was previously there.
PSA, if you want to delete a comment or post, be absolutely sure you first edit it to be blank.
This seems like a server-side issue from Lemmy tho and one that should be pretty easy to fix. I mean, what's the point of keeping a deleted post on the server anyway?