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I'm quite sure it's similar on Lemmy: if an admin purges a user, their profile won't be accessible anymore
the way it works on lemmy there's still some transparency, for example you can still see that the account existed, and has had posts removed by mod so you can figure out the context lemmy has it's own issues too, like the fact that you can't see the removed posts; iirc they're planning to change that.
in fact on piefed, if you wanted to review the modlog to see who has been getting account deleted, it doesn't let you see beyond page 1
the next button resets the search
Was that account purged or banned? IIRC there's a difference, and purged accounts would show ab empty profile without any posts
Good point about the modlog page 2, @rimu@piefed.social or @wjs018@piefed.social can this be fixed quickly? If not I'll make a Codeberg issue
Every single one of their posts says 'removed by mod' with nothing in the comment moderation history. As far as I know if they were just banned with the posts manually removed you would still be able to reveal the comment moderation history.
There are two different actions
The documentation explains the difference
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/04-moderation.html?highlight=purge#how-to-moderate
I think the Lemmy user you are referring to above got banned, and their posts got removed as the sub-action, but they did not get purge.
Your account got purged on the Piefed instance you linked above.
Now obviously as you can guess it's difficult to find an example of a purged account on a Lemmy instance as there's no filter for that kind of actions in the modlog.
TIL, I'm not an admin so I never interacted with that functionality (nor did I rtfm, clearly)
already planning on making a sequel yptb post complaining about being purged
Feel free , at least maybe some other admins can confirm the difference between ban and purge on both platforms 😅
The API has a filter for AdminPurgedPerson, but the result doesn't include any info on the purged user.
Indeed.
Having a closer look at the modlog for diva's account on quokk.au, it shows "delete user" and not "ban user", "delete user" being the Piefed version of Lemmy "purge user"
https://quokk.au/modlog?mod_action=&suspect_user_name=diva%40lemmy.ml&communities=&submit=Search