After sending a DM, the profile lacks access to it. I can see my posts and public comments, but not my DMs. Thus there is also no way to read or edit DMs Lemmy users have sent.

update

As @[email protected] points out, sent messages are accessible in the ALL tab. Once my DMs are rendered, indeed there is an option to edit them just like a public message. But presumably due to another bug, Lemmy recipients are not likely notified of edits (untested).

  • freedomPusher@sopuli.xyzOPM
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    8 months ago

    Can you edit a sent email? A letter? A text message?

    Irrelevant.

    Not a bug, it’s the way that “actually sent” communications works. DMs on non-federated systems aren’t really sent, they are information held in one place that two people both access.

    It’s unclear why you talking about non-federated systems. But in the design of any comms system there are multiple ways to support edits:

    • sender and recipient have access to the same copy
    • the sender can retract an old message and resend an updated version (or this can be done in a single step if the protocol designs for it).

    W.r.t email, MS Outlook indeed has a mechanism to retract a message if the recipient chooses to enable it, but it only works on unread messages.

    BTW, my bug report indeed is not a bug, but not for the reason you mention. It’s not a bug because it was a user error (I forgot how to reach sent messages). Lemmy does in fact support editing messages (DM or public just the same).