Someone deleted a popular answer to a post and now I don’t have a way to make it look right. What should I do in such cases?

  • Gamerie@feddit.de
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    3 years ago

    It would be great if it would have previous versions, i.e. you can’t unpost anything. But that would probably lead ti a lot of problems.

    • kevincox@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      FWIW you can’t reliably unpost anything anyways. It would be trivial to run an instance of lemmy that just federated and logged everything. Deletion should always be treated as a “Please delete this” on the internet.

      Of course there are some benefits if everyone does actually cooperate, however it does raise the question of should we pretend this is the case if it isn’t forced. It may lead users to believe that they can actually reliably delete something.