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What's your stance on the inability to remove comments in fediverse instances like Lemmy or Kbin?
I don’t know that you could ever remove posts or comments from Reddit either. I think it’s safer to describe it as making a comment public or not. I’m assuming that Reddit itself keeps records of all deleted posts. It’s best to treat everything you post online as public and permanent. I honestly think reddits ability to edit comments was a problem. I’ve seen so many arguments where people go back and change previous posts so now the arguments don’t make sense or to make the person responding to them look like an asshole.
My understanding was that reddit only kept the immediate previous version, not all historical versions. So if you just edited or deleted your post, they could restore it from the backup (if they wanted to). But you could edit your post to, say, "eff spez and eff reddit". And if your edited or deleted it after that, the only thing they'd be able to restore it to would be "eff spez and eff reddit".
That's my historical understanding anyway, they could've changed it in the meantime.