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[–] Blue_Morpho 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Android Thunder. Three dots below message you wrote. Delete at bottom.

Note that short of deleting your account, messages aren't deleted with Lemmy. They're marked hidden in the html. You can see them with view source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The permadelete_for_creator function (called by the purge_user_account function, which is called by the delete_user_account handler when delete content is true) updates every comment of the user to contain the predefined text "Permanently Deleted".

delete_user_account: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/493734d1b3b60587208d56049e9c14b815c5d8d1/crates/api_crud/src/user/delete.rs#L35

purge_user_account: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/493734d1b3b60587208d56049e9c14b815c5d8d1/crates/api_common/src/utils.rs#L963

permadelete_for_creator: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/493734d1b3b60587208d56049e9c14b815c5d8d1/crates/db_schema/src/impls/comment.rs#L34

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

thanks, is there any app that implements this function?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Thunder has a "Delete Account" option in the account settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Note that short of deleting your account, messages aren't deleted with Lemmy. They're marked hidden in the html. You can see them with view source.

That’s kinda misleading if it says delete but doesn’t really do so.