This should be a pretty basic feature, just not having a private message be there anymore. But for some reason that does not work here?

I tried searching for this. I found a year old open issue on GitHub and some reddit users complaining about this very issue.

Talking with some people in the comments here, it seems like some people don’t understand that one might not want a message to be in their face. Or the idea that just because something could be recovered doesn’t mean we should treat it as an absolute

  • Boomkop3OP
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    1 month ago

    Except this isn’t email, is it? This platform isn’t copying all content to all other instances.

    And even then, still not an excuse to be negligent.

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      If you send personal data to a mailing list with hundreds of members, can you ask them to delete that email?

      Email receivers get a copy of the email, in a similar fashion to Lemmy.

      Also, the latest Lemmy version allows for local communities, where content does not federate

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        1 month ago

        This isn’t about a mailing list with hundreds of members, this is about a dm. And not wanting to see it.

        Is that so complicated?

        (even emails let you delete m on your end)