It’s unnerving to find an interesting post, with an interesting conversation, only to see it deleted (not even mod removed) with hanging replies in the inbox and no way to reply back.

Is there any feature that would allow continuing those conversations? Other than direct messages, which get “black holed” (no way to see own replies). Could these conversations be somehow continued, either recovered in Lemmy, or maybe via Mastodon?

  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgM
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    1 year ago

    If someone deletes their posts or comments they are simply gone. I’m sure many privacy minded folks around here feel strongly about this staying precisely the way things are, so I wouldn’t expect any changes.

    • jarfil@beehaw.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      That is not completely correct. Deleted posts and comments are still served and accessible via their direct references, just hidden on client-side in the UI. This allows users to un-delete stuff… but also means that “privacy minded” folk should blank+delete, not just delete their stuff. IIRC there was a discussion on the Lemmy GitHub about adding an auto-prune period to “actually delete” deleted stuff, not sure how that ended.

      Anyway, that’s not what I’m asking.

      When a post gets marked as deleted, all the comments are still there, one just can’t reply to them since the post is now marked as deleted. Some of the comments are replies to one’s comments, and still appear in one’s inbox, and I would want to reply to some. I could send a “DM” to whoever wrote the reply, but DMs are also broken in that one doesn’t see their own sent DMs.

      IMO there should be no privacy or other problem with continuing a conversation started on a deleted post, following a “not deleted” comment thread (would also be nice to see the thread context… of “not deleted” comments).