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How do I delete a post that arrived from Mastodon? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by hallenbeck to c/moderators
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I've got a post in my community that was posted by mistake. This one:

https://lemmy.world/post/4989402

It was actually me that posted it from my Mastodon account.

I can't see a way to delete or hide it from the community.

The kebab menu only has the following items:

  • Create report
  • Block user
  • Lock
  • Community pin

I've tried reporting the post and it appears on the report page, but I don't seem to be able to do anything with it other than clicking "resolve report".

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

Ah, thanks. Yes, deleting it in Mastodon did the trick. It's still far from ideal having no way of hiding/deleting posts from Mastodon other than asking the OP to delete it. This seems like a bit of a gaping security/abuse/moderation hole, no? I'm guessing admins can still delete stuff?

[–] helloharu 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely agree, that could turn into a moderation nightmare if someone wanted to abuse it. Do you know if there's an issue for this on GitHub?

[–] hallenbeck 1 points 1 year ago

No idea - this is something I've only just become aware of.