1y ago

removedit for lemmy?

Is there such a thing for lemmy? I've noticed some... Overzealous moderation on lemmy, which annoys me to no end. I want to read the comments naturally, and not just what the power mods (yes, they are here too) deem acceptable.

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You can check the public modlog. Unless the user was banned + removal of all comments, it should be visible there.
- It's all gone if post is removed.
  Is there a way to look through it by community instead of just by instance?
  
  Yes, in the community sidebar there’s an community specific modlog.
- Won’t the activitypub have been synced to federated instances too?
  
  How do you mean?
No such thing needed, you can check the modlog for the comment removed. Just go to modlog and filter it by user and you can see the comment along with the reason it got removed. It's transparent.
- The modlog only shows removed posts which is probably all OP wants. It doesn't show deleted posts, or edit history which I'd want to see.
  
  Yes but that would kinda be bad for privacy. Fediverse is already pretty bad at it and i don't want it to be worst.
I also see deleted comments, I guess by the user. Which is odd, bc like if they wanted to remove it that's their choice I suppose, but Lemmy still shows me reply notifications, but then when I go to read it, it's gone!?
- Are you on the same instance as the deleting user? This sounds like a quirk of federation.
  
  This does seem the most likely explanation. But... my instance seems to be aware of the deletion at least, and yet still chooses to show it. It could show the old message, it could remove it entirely and show no notification, it could get fancy and show nothing by default but then upon requesting addition information show it anyway... but out of all the various possibilities, it chooses the single most annoying one? 😜
- Yeah, that's a really annoying design choice.
- So on Liftoff, I find that if I interact with a deleted comment (up or down vote) the deleted content appears. Weird eh?
  
  That’s because only a Boolean flag changes when deleted by user. Comment content stays.
  
  That does not work in a webpage browser, so seems like a Liftoff ~~bug~~ (/feature?:-P) on top of the underlying issue in Lemmy itself.
Should be rather simple actually. You'd need a slightly modified version of Lemmy which simply ignores federated deletions.
Beyond that, you'd have to Index the fediverse somehow. This could probably be achieved by subscribing to all relevant communities. There's ready made bots for that I believe for the purposes of populating small instances with content.
The legal side of that is questionable at best though, just like removedit. Slightly less I'd say since re-hosting content here is generally allowed which was certainly not the case with Reddit.
I was wrong

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