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Deleted posts still show as “Permanently Deleted” with an undelete button — is this expected on lemmy.ca? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ColemanLaing@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca

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I’m trying to understand how post deletion is intended to work on lemmy.ca..

When I delete one of my posts, the content disappears, but the entry still shows up in my profile as “Permanently Deleted,” and there’s an option to undelete it. From a user point of view, this feels different from what I’d normally expect when something is deleted, so I wanted to check whether this is:

the expected behavior on lemmy.ca,

a limitation of Lemmy/federation in general, or

a bug or configuration issue on this instance.

More specifically, I’m wondering:

Should deleted posts still appear in my profile at all?

Is it intentional that I can still undelete them after they’re marked “Permanently Deleted”?

Is there any way, on lemmy.ca, to make a post fully disappear from my account view once I’ve decided to delete it?

I’m not trying to complain, just to understand how things are supposed to work here so I can adjust my expectations.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think that feature could use some UI improvements to help users understand what is going on.

As a user, you should be able to fully delete any media that you have uploaded. Go to your profile, then the uploads tab. For your account, it will be on this link: https://lemmy.ca/u/ColemanLaing?page=1&sort=New&view=Uploads (other users can't see this page)

However, users can't permanently delete posts without help from site admins. I imagine this has to do with preventing harmful content, since otherwise users could post spam and then delete it without the admins from being able to see what they did.

Admins can "purge" posts from the site, in a way that it gets deleted from the database. This is what it looks like on my interface: