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Abuse problem with DMs and lack of delete (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ellie@slrpnk.net to c/meta@slrpnk.net

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Slrpnk and lemmy are great, and I understand they are volunteer driven. With this post I don't mean to be pushy, and I'm grateful for this place and the software, but I hope it's useful to point out where there might be trouble for users down the line:

So I might be missing something, but there seems to be no way to delete a private message, not even after reporting it. Given the nasty things some people may send just to mess with somebody, this seems like a dangerous omission to me that is at a high risk to lead to grief if not addressed at some point. Is there some bug tracker where perhaps this omission could be best pointed out?

My apologies if I'm missing something however. Perhaps I'm just too silly to see the button, it's happened before.

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

No you're absolutely right and it's dumb as bricks.

Right now the only person who can delete a PM is the sender, not the recipient.
The recipient can mark it as read, but that doesn't help much.
Your local admin can do it for you in the database, for recipients local to the instance.
There currently is no way for a local admin to trigger federation of deletion of PMs sent to remote users either.
Although I think there's a Pull Request that implements the "removed" state.
I imagine that would trigger on bans that remove content.
I'm not sure if this will be exposed to users or just admins.