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 @viking@infosec.pub 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).

  • viking@infosec.pub
    3·
    7 months ago

    If I go to the inbox and switch the view to “all messages” it shows my sent and received messages.

    But yes since all messages are federated, even personal ones, you can’t edit them.

    • freedomPusherOPM
      2·
      7 months ago

      Ah, right I overlooked the ALL. I was sure I had been able to reach sent msgs in the past but forgot how and wondered if the option had been removed. I just corrected the title and added an update.

    • freedomPusherOPM
      1·
      7 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).