When you delete a post or a comment it still exists in the history, but only the user can still see it. I want it completely gone. I like things tidy.
Admins can purge them (which deletes them from the local database), but I don’t think users can. I’d guess the reason is that it breaks comment chains when a parent comment is physically deleted from the database. Plus, “purge” operations don’t federate, only “remove/restore/delete”. So purging a comment locally would not purge it on any other instance it federated out to. And once it’s purged, you wouldn’t be able to do any actions against it that would federate; it would effectively orphan it on other instances.
Eventually, deleted items go to “Permanently deleted” status, but all that does is change the title/text to “Permanently Deleted”.
BE
Thank you.
