If your post would end up like that in a day, please just refrain from posting it, in any community, or use a throwaway. It is very destructive, especially since all and every comment also becomes unreachable with it.

Sincerely,
With all due respect,
Your Lemmy neighbor

I’m fed up with this shit, and I know it well that it’s not just me.

Do not bomb your communities, please.

I promise, I’ll end up setting up a public instance that does not obey any deletions because of these madlads. Seriously, where is pushshift for lemmy?

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Sure but then I get someone making an unnecessarily critical and destructive comment and my post turns to shit and nobody participates anymore because they’re too fixated on the comment and start down voting the thread instead.

    I recently made a post on AskLemmy and the third guy commenting just started casting doubts on what I shared even though it was an anecdote and it’s something that happens where I live. My story’s sole purpose was to generate interest and get people commenting. But nooo, I can’t do that because what happened is inconceivable in their country so it must be impossible everywhere else! Lemmy always knows best. Fuck it, nuked.

  • tyrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Lemmy will never be the resource reddit became if everyone just deletes their info.

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
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    14 days ago

    I promise, I’ll end up setting up a public instance that does not obey any deletions because of these madlads. Seriously, where is pushshift for lemmy?

    Yeah this is a really good idea; I’ve been wanting to do it but haven’t had the time to configure everything. You’d need to hide which instance it actually is though, or other instances would just defederate from it. Maybe set up a website where you can plop in a post/comment URL and see the deleted contents.

    I’ll get around to it one of these days…

  • madjo@feddit.nl
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    13 days ago

    So gosh darn tired of that.

    To those deleters, I want to say: if you don’t like the answers that you’re getting, tough shit buddy. Learn from your mistake. Leave the post up for other people to also learn.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    When you devote 30 minutes to a detailed answer about something you’re passionate about and refresh to find “permanently deleted”

    • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      Or if you’re like me and see a thread, be all like “Oh, that could be interesting, I’ll check that later,” and put your phone away for a few hours, and then, when you finally get to check the thread again, and refresh it just to be up to date, you see it’s been permanently deleted…

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Firmly agree. If I notice a trend on posts being deleted after posting, I just block the user so I don’t see the new posts. Nothing is more annoying then putting a bunch of effort responding to someones question, especially tech related, just for them to nuke the post later on so it was all for nothing.

    Thankfully though, it’s few and far between on the communities that I usually look at, so I have not noticed it a whole lot.

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        13 days ago

        as others have said, generally a privacy issue type deal. Sometimes regarding data being collected then sold.

        I don’t agree with the mentality tbh, if you were concerned about that just don’t post. Nothing is stopping the data collectors from collecting it anyway(I’m sure they already have their own instance set to auto sub and ignore deletion requests), the only people who are effected by it are the users who wanted to see the post, and the people who put effort into responding.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      14 days ago

      A lot of people make posts and then delete the post and/or their entire account, nuking large threads leaving them with the title “Permanently Deleted.”