cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17779430

A large percentage of threads I’ve created or participated in have been deleted. Worse is that when visiting the URL everything is completely gone.

This is much more drastic when compared with Reddit thread deletions, where the thread is there and so is the discussion. And the creator of the thread has access to their content.

The Lemmy method discourages people from participating in threads and creating high-quality content, much more so than the Reddit method.

A bunch of lively and useful discussions on Lemmy have completely disappeared. And it makes it seem like a waste of time to even contribute content here.

EDIT: I see that the “fediverse” link for posts has been removed. I posted this to lemmy.ml from a lemmy.world account and there’s no way for me to get the lemmy.ml link now. And when I crosspost it it shows a lemmy.world link instead of the lemmy.ml one. I think this should be changed [back].

  • SharkEatingBreakfastEnglish
    222·
    5 months ago

    “My posts keep getting deleted!”

    — user looks into public info to find out why your posts might be being deleted —

    “Shut up, r×ddit defender!!!”

    If you really want to know, I’ve seen a lot of people just delete their old posts for privacy reasons. Trying to keep that internet footprint out of sight.

    • MaximilianKohler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      37·
      5 months ago

      “My posts keep getting deleted!”

      — user looks into public info to find out why your posts might be being deleted —

      Nice try, but that’s deceptive. This thread was not about my personal posts. I even gave an example of a recent thread (that I did not make) with hundreds of comments. You’re further proving my point.

          • SharkEatingBreakfastEnglish
            41·
            5 months ago

            Thanks! I miss the feel of old image boards and niche forums.

            In this case, I think highlighting the absolute goofiness of this entire thread fits well into the theme.

        • MaximilianKohler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          14·
          5 months ago

          That’s a lot of effort you’re putting into something that can easily disappear at any point.

          That is the point of this thread. You’ve chosen to deceptively magnify one part of it to twist things for your own purpose, which also seems to be a primary purpose of a lot of people on Lemmy – antagonizing other Lemmy users.

        • MaximilianKohler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          21·
          5 months ago

          How are you supposed to link to a source when it’s completely deleted?

          You can see it in my profile though:

          @MaximilianKohler to Ask Lemmy Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch? • 5 days ago

          This is the link and it looks like it’s been restored https://lemmy.world/post/17593614

          I looked in the mod log https://lemmy.world/modlog/3106 and it says:

          4 hours ago mod Restored Post Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch? reason: restoring post as it was deleted as a result of the user getting instance banned from lemmy.ml

          There is no log of why/when it was removed.

          I looked up another one from https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions titled “Where’s all the intelligent discussion at?”, which was removed for rule 7. I don’t agree with the removal reason, but none of this is relevant to the point of the OP. You guys are sidetracking.