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The one thing I miss from reddit: Being able to look at and continue conversations in deleted posts. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I really like lemmy and have stopped using reddit months ago. My only real gripe with lemmy is the title: when a conversation gets going in the comment section, that gets killed when the post is deleted, for whatever reason. I can't even go back to a conversation and have a look at the comment threads to "dwell in nostalgia" (or whatever) if the post to the comment section gets deleted. Piecing the threads together from the inbox and my comments on my profile, and continuing a discussion via direct messages is cumbersome and kind of antithetical.

So, feature request, I guess: Enable retrieving comment sections of deleted (removed from community) posts. Bonus points if new comments could be added after the deletion (/removal) of a post.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe the option should be removed, because technically you could create your own private Lemmy instance and mirror everything but disable deletion. Now you have all the information available people deleted. You could go even further and create a browser plugin so everyone else could see all deleted posts. You could do the same and create a plugin, to display usernames of everyone who voted on a post, as that information is publicly available. It's just hidden. So there's still a lot of work on Lemmy required to streamline this or it might get never solved.

On another note you could create an instance that only displays deleted content. Now I wonder what that looks like. Scary.