The answer is, you’re not wrong, but it’s that way because we think of “Self-delete” as the specific name of a function on DU. It appears as a function in the Powers menu below any of your posts.
Part of this is just for legacy reasons. We understand that it’s clunky, but we deliberately chose to say “self-deleted” rather than just “deleted” in the notification because when the function was new, we wanted to be crystal clear that the post was deleted by its own author and not for some other reason. We didn’t want the notification to be too similar to other notifications.
We don’t mind leaving it the way it is because we still want to make sure that people associate that piece of information with the Self-delete function.
At least, that’s my excuse 
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