Edit: and what do you know, 16 minutes after cross-posting this to !piefed_meta@piefed.social, Rimu agrees, changes the code, and deploys onto piefed.social to retain deleted posts. PieFed really is something!! (announcement post)
If a question is deleted for seemingly no reason on asklemmy, after people have provided quality answers and the comment field is reasonably healthy, I usually issue a ban. It’s technically not against the rules, but it is very much against the spirit of the board, and it’s not fair towards the ones who took their time to answer.
Thank you
Honestly, this is a major weakness of Lemmy. The OP of a thread can destroy a lot of content by other people, and they often do. I really don’t get the reasoning behind allowing them that power.
In Europe you own almost all of the data you post online.
This is about data posted by other people, though.
It’s up to Lemmy to safeguard that, not the OP.
Reddit changes the stuff to
[]or something like that.It’s up to Lemmy to safeguard that, not the OP.
Uhm, yes? The discussion was never about anything else?
Reddit changes the stuff to [Deleted] or something like that.
I know, and I think that’s preferable. Gives the OP a way to delete their own stuff while not destroying arbitrary amounts of other people’s conversations and arguments.
I figure it is simply negligence in that implementation of any kind of solution would take effort. PieFed is too new to have gotten around to it yet, Lemmy seems to want to rather spend time on moderating instances than on code development, and hardly anybody uses Mbin so I don’t know its stance on the topic.
I’m betting that six months from now very little if anything will have changed in this regard. Just like the previous six months, the six months before that, the six months before that, and so on. (But if I can say this without getting banned from this community, if something does happen to change this, it will be on PieFed.)
I think they made deleted posts visible in Lemmy 1.0.
I’ve just done it in PieFed 1.4.3, released now.
Thanks again! To all that made it happen.
More often than not: “OP deletes account and content, haha suckers”
We thought we could build a better Reddit, practically for free. Now we are all 2.5 years older, but are we any wiser?
no, because we keep falling into the same stupid pitfalls like last time.
This happens too much around here. Especially the Politics coms
Even better, replace original postwith gibberish so no one knows the context.
Also a possibility yes, but at least that doesn’t nuke content from perhaps hundreds of other people who replied!
