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
When you send an email to someone, how can you delete it once they have it?
It’s a similar issue here.
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.
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