Hive is censorship-resistant.
Even if a frontend website (which are only, as the name says, applications at the front - what you see, the user interface) doesnt appear to show it - everything is still and 'forever' (as long as hive will live) saved in a censorship-resistant way on chain.
The frontend only decides to use the most recent updated/edited data corresponding to what you are looking at and displays that for you.
It is still all on chain.
So:
How can you see deleted or old edits/ versions?
In the past there have been specific tools, which were an own website or local script crawling through the blockchain by themselves after giving them a link.
Because a human has a hard time working through all that raw data - we prefer to look at user interfaces ^^
Blockchain explorers are the most user friendly way of looking at raw blockchain data: hiveblocks.com
But it is even easier today: it is already directly integrated in our most favorite frontend: peakd.com :)
Just click on the 3 dots under a post/ comment
select view versions
and view different versions of this post! :)
I also didnt know this until a few minutes ago :)
Very fucking cool! Thank you @peakd
do you want to try it?
try seeing the original version of this "deleted" post:
@quantummaa/dear-hive-i-have-to-clean-my-name-
I hope you have learned something and it will become useful to you in the future :)
Hive on
edit: thank you very much @dlmmqb for showing me this great feature :)