When you delete a post or a comment it still exists in the history, but only the user can still see it. I want it completely gone. I like things tidy.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Admins can purge them (which deletes them from the local database), but I don’t think users can. I’d guess the reason is that it breaks comment chains when a parent comment is physically deleted from the database. Plus, “purge” operations don’t federate, only “remove/restore/delete”. So purging a comment locally would not purge it on any other instance it federated out to.

    Eventually, deleted items go to “Permanently deleted” status, but all that does is change the title/text to “Permanently Deleted”.