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I just saw this post and was curious if something like this (restoring deleted comments) can be added to Voyager.

Maybe a toggle or something? Click to view like NSFW content?

Or is this an instance-level thing that Voyager couldn't do?

Thanks in advance!

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's just something admins (and maybe mods, I don't know) can do.

The only way this could be done by an app was if it saved a copy of every post and comment in case one of them gets deleted.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This ain’t Reddit friend. The mod logs are public and include the original. Not to mention every message is sent out to federated servers.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure. But this is about the feasibility of adding an undelete to Voyager.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

The modlog is there, and I believe there are archival instances out there already.

[–] taco_shale032@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this not possible with the modlog?

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
  1. Modlog wouldn't include users deleting their own posts/comments

  2. That would encourage mods to do hard deletes not soft deletes.

  3. you should be able to delete stuff!

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hard delete isn’t even a hard delete. Virtually everything can be recovered through federation.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

Any mainstream instance/app should honour the intent though.

[–] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

Because of the fediverse being federated, you could have an instance that just refuses to actually delete things, done. That would include keeping literally every post and every edit stored somewhere of course.