Haven’t been following Lemmy development recently, but are there moves to change how deleting posts works? It seems a bit shit that someone can just delete entire threads. If they want to delete their own posts, then fine, but they shouldn’t be able to memory hole all the replies.

I'm not aware of any real functional changes to Lemmy being worked on. I'm also a bit out of the loop, but they are working on 0.19 and I'm pretty sure it's backend stuff like a rewrite of the API.

Potentially you wouldn’t have to mark it as a bot? Since it only ever posts on your server, you don’t have to require it to be marked as a bot. People can always block that account if they really want to.

It just seems wrong 😆. I guess if there were no objections we could do this. You're right, so long as we stay in our corner, it shouldn't affect others too much. It would still be a bot post showing in All for many people, though.

[+] SamC 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just comments, right? So if you delete a comment, currently all sub-comments are lost but this would fix that.

I have a brief read through but it didn't seem like they were targeting post removal.