When I delete a comment on Lemmy, people can still see that there used to be a comment by me that I later deleted. What’s the reasoning for that?

Edit: changed “post” to “comment”.

  • valar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 天前

    I agree with this but it doesn’t fully explain why the comment itself gets removed while the fact that you commented doesn’t. If the explanation is deletion can’t be enforced across instances, why half-delete it? I think ultimately that’s just a design choice.

    • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 天前

      Not too sure on lemmy’s exact inner workings but I would imagine there is still a “pointer” to the content being loaded, except the content is now missing in this case?