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How to recover a post a user deleted that was actually awesome? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world to c/moderators@lemmy.world
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Over in the community I moderate here on Lemmy world, which is history, a user posted a link about photos from India when it was colonized by Great Britain. All of us over there were like enthusiastic to the brim, then the user deleted his or her post. When the user deleted their post, there's nothing to click on for a link, and what they posted was actually a really good link. Is there a way for me to recover the link to force it to be available again? It was really good. I navigated to the link before the user deleted the post, but it isn't available now in my history in my web browser, probably due to a sync fail from Firefox. Is there any way to recover this post so my community can continue to enjoy it? Is there a way for moderators to not only see that the user deleted their post, but also interact with the deleted post to copy the link?

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You would need to find another instance that still has the content, or find someone that archived it.

If you do find it, save it immediately before that other instance realizes it's been deleted

If possible, look for it on a kbin instance. Maybe the federation issues might help you in this case

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does the moderation log save the content of text posts?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think so, and since the log is still public it probably shouldn't.

That way if someone gets doxxed or has personal information leaked, moderators can at least somewhat remove it

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago

That would make sense but I wouldn't be surprised if it was an oversight at this point

[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It saves it if a moderator acted on it. In this case, the user acted on it, and everything was lost. The only way the full content of something shows up in the modlog is if a mod deleted. The user deleted. I just wish I could recover the link that the user shared so I can share the link again, because I think with all my heart it's significant. I've been spending a lot of time looking for it now to just post it to my community myself. Such an impact. Historically important photos from the colonial era of India as well as present-day Pakistan and other places. Anyway, my point is that there is a difference between what the mod deletes and what the user deletes. If the mod deletes it, it's there in full in the log. If the user deletes it, no trace. Which is weird. Ever try to delete your account on here? Still can't without begging an admin for that.

[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

thank you for thinking of that. that makes sense.