User profile filter to show deleted posts and comments

[8ullyMaguire]

Requirements

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Describe the feature you'd like

Lemmy currently hides posts and comments when they are deleted, but does not fully remove them from the database. It would be useful to add an option to view a user's own deleted content, similar to the existing view=Saved filter.

This could be implemented by adding a "Deleted" section or tab in a user's profile. All of a user's deleted posts and comments would be collected here and made visible only to that user.

This would make it much easier for users to browse and potentially recover their own deleted content. Without this view, deleted content can be very difficult to find again.

If deleted content is actually being fully purged from the database with no way to recover it, then this feature would not be applicable. But as I understand it, deletions are only hiding content, not removing it entirely. Please let me know if my assumption is incorrect.

Overall this would provide a very useful way for users to restore their own deleted content when desired. Many sites take this approach over fully deleting content right away.

Related

• Show deleted posts for your user, hide them from others.
• Create Collections of Posts