Please check my post, I think everything I said is very valid, but I want this community to see it too, and help steer the discussion, I think reddit is doing this intentionally.

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    I haven’t dived into how Lemmy handles edits specifically yet, but my understanding is that a version of the edit is saved into a log. This also brings up the point - if I can edit my post with a period to “delete” it, why doesn’t the delete work that way too?

    You can do that, and delete doesn’t work that way in case you want to restore your post.

    You can also, again, delete your account, and that will remove all of your posts.

    This respects privacy, and is convenient.

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      I just disagree. Let me restore my post for a limited amount of time before hard deleting it. Make the policy around that data transparent.

      I have checked the issue tracker. Privacy concerns are coming up pretty regularly there. Other people seem to value it too. Lemmy has an opportunity to set a new standard around user privacy in this space and I hope we can take that opportunity.

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        1 year ago

        Post it to the issue tracker, it seems like it just hasn’t been updated with that functionality yet, not that they won’t do it.

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          My intention is to be a contributor. Rust is my second favorite language. Thank you for the discussion.