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I found a way to retrieve the text of comments deleted by user or mod. I don't think it is an issue of federated instances not respecting the deletion.

Is it a bug?

Or is "deleting" always really just "hiding"?

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[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

deleted by mod still shows in the modlog so probably no security concerns there. deleted by user stuff should really not be returned but its possible (ugh) that they're just doing that on the frontend. but deleted comments are definitely not removed from the db. Account deletion used to and might still overwrite the content of all your comments in addition to marking them deleted

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

deleted by user stuff should really not be returned but its possible (ugh) that they're just doing that on the frontend.

They definitely are, I can read deleted comments on boost.

[–] glans@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Ya I went into old threads to test and found comments which were apparently deleted about a year ago still available.