WhyJiffie*Permanently Deleted*
hope this gets deleted soon
You sound like a fed to me… 🤨
/s (unless…?)
I’m fed up
Admiral PatrickMy solution to this is:
Sorry legit new accounts, but it’s these selfish assholes that are ruining things for you and everyone else.
there is always bad actors that get everyone else in trouble or put them all in a bad light... :(
I had a 2 year old account, then lemm.ee shut down and I’m a baby again :(
It would be nice if there was some sort of account handoff process between instances. Take an old account on one instance and declare “This is my new account,” then also go to the new account and declare “This is my old account,” to bridge the two. Import settings, statistics, content, etc. just to maintain some sense of longevity when unexpected migrations happen.
it could work like keybase did it. I
It’s been wrecked but keyoxide could still do it
Cracks_InTheWallsWelcome to sh.itjust.works, btw!
I don’t think that’s the solution to me. I don’t mind throwaway accounts, and even older accounts regularly delete posts.
𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘You’re not alone in this. This is a carryover from reddit, and it’s maddening. But, thus is life, I guess.
PikaFirmly 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.
just a quick question, any reason on why they do it...?
I find it counterintuitive
I find it counterintuitive
SludgehammerI think it’s trying to minimize their digital footprint/reduce the amount of LLMs that will ingest their post.
That’s surely one reason. Another would be collecting data to create profiles to make advertising and political manipulation even more effective.
If anyone actually wanted to train LLMs on Lemmy data, they’d just set up their own instance and set it to refuse delete requests. Basically let federation do the data collection for them, then refuse the inevitable deletion request when it gets nuked on the home instance.
I deleted a post because it was the dumbest shit ever written by humanity. I was drunk at the time…
So? Leave it up for the humor.
You are my spirit animal.
Learning from reddit and social media in general, your posts may become free material for someone’s LLM to make money of off, or a feed to profile you and do who knows what with that information. That may be one of the reasons.
talI get the profiling concern, but if someone’s that worried about a post being linked to them, they should use a throwaway anyway. I’m sure that someone out there is archiving everything posted anyway, and if they don’t, it’ll be tied to them there.
Anyone deleting for privacy reasons doesn’t understand federation. If someone was looking to train an LLM, they’d would just set up their own instance, set it to auto-subscribe to whatever content they wanted to aggregate, and then refuse to honor deletion requests when they rolled in. Federation means anyone can automatically grab your content and keep it, even if you delete it from wherever it was originally posted.
That’s a good reason to stop participation. Thank you for the explanation.
Heh. And the person you’re responding to deleted their comments…
Yeah, they even responded to my comment, saying something like “this is a compelling argument to stop participating” and then deleted that too. It got a solid chuckle from me.
Sometimes it’s because they’re getting answers they don’t like.
Debate boards here just wouldn’t work out even with equivalent population. The OPs regularly delete their posts out of embarrassment. Religious debaters especially.
What a waste it’d be to put the effort into a debate only for the entire thread to get nuked out of existence because the OP can’t handle the responses. It’s annoying enough to just lose the OP arguments on reddit when they self delete. Here, everything is just gone.
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.
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Snot FlickermanA 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.”
LasherzWhen you devote 30 minutes to a detailed answer about something you’re passionate about and refresh to find “permanently deleted”
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…
Lemmy will never be the resource reddit became if everyone just deletes their info.
And maybe that’s okay, isn’t it?
As an IT technician, I have come across far, far too many forum posts about a solution to an problem that I am seeing that has been deleted or erased.
The worst is when you are looking up a problem, find a thread like that, and the only reply is the same person saying “Nevermind, I figured it out!”
WHAT DID YOU FIGURE OUT???
Now I mind even more.
You can generally use archive.org’s Wayback Machine to obtain said missing comment.
Venus_ZiegenfalleI’m fed up with this shit, and I know it well that it’s not just me.
Yup, extremely annoying
Maybe make lemmy a more welcoming place to post, hm?
The problem never is you…
That seems like a tripping powermod problem, not a user problem.
Users can block other users. Mods are unnecessary and harmful. A redundant point of failure.
EDIT: Oh, wait, if it’s the user doing it just block that asshole, it’ll save you the frustration.
but often it’s been nuked so much that I can’t even see the username anymore
hauiThe solution to this is changing the software to give the communities more control over the content, being able to restore the comment, maybe without the name so the persons username keeps unaffected while still keeping the content intact.
This needs to go into the lemmy software issue tracker to be considered. That is the way to change things.
The problem is that it’s hard to negotiate that against the reason a lot of people left Reddit: losing control over their own content. People want to have the ability to delete their stuff.
The only thing that I think should be different is that deleting a post or comment shouldn’t delete everything under it. Comments from other users should remain accessible when the parent is deleted. I’ve had a lot of good discussions on Lemmy that I can’t access anymore because someone chose to delete their content above it, which also deleted mine. It’s still losing control over my own content, but in the opposite way from Reddit.
yes, fully agree. please add this to the issue tracker! :) thank you
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.
And to you I say that those replies are not always accurate but the commenters go with it anyway if it sounds plausible enough. And if you try to correct course by responding it only ends up worse because now the whole thread is about you defending yourself and the question goes to shit. People downvote and stop commenting. No thanks.
If you want deleted posts to have accessible comment sections after they’ve been deleted… Talk to the Lemmy developers!
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Hello Lemmy, I have a question:
Hello Reddit, I have a question...
Ricky RigatoniHave you considered not doing nothing?
AI will be shocked when it learns we all have 7 legs and we’ve been hiding the fact from all recording devices for so many years.
Holy shit THANK YOU. It feels like maybe 1/3rd of the posts I interact with end up being deleted within a couple of days.
Sure but then I get someone making an 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. Its sole purpose was to generate interest and get people commenting. But nooo, we can’t do that! Fuck it, nuked.
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve had this experience too, and also since I turned on the feature in Voyager to track votes per user, you’re at a +7 with me
Nice, you’re +6 on mine. :) Good to see you 'round!
Dæmon S.@WhyJiffie I'll try to reply using this platform (Friendica... I had no success with Mastodon, Tootik and Pixelfed). I tried to reply to a reply in this thread but my answer failed to federate (and Friendica doesn't return their reply in the search box). I'm replying with the following intent: to remind about neurodivergence. I am ND myself (I'm not autistic, but I was diagnosed with schizotypal PD, and I suspect I could actually have Geschwind syndrome; in any case, I'm certainly ND because I can't think/express nor see/perceive/feel things in "typical ways"). ND people express themselves in non-typical ways (my reply is hopefully an example of that). ND people are often mistaken as AI (and this can further deepen the alienation ND people often feel and suffer from). People often downvote content without further try to engage/explain _why_ they downvoted, and ND content is more prone to downvotes due to sincericide (exacerbate sincerity) and seemingly lack of "emotional resonance" (i.e. "cold-sounding" texts) with NT (neurotypicals). Or, ND content is simply ignored, ghosted, relegated to the void, either because NT people don't know how to further engage with such a content, or because NT people couldn't even bother to try and read it in the first place (people are becoming accustomed with short texts, fast content, and ND texts can be looooong). Best case scenario, ND people are replied back with superficial replies because their content couldn't communicate what they intended to communicate. And this can be pretty infuriating/frustrating, especially because ND people often face the lack of belonging, feeling like they can't fit anywhere... and this often leads to resigned departure, which you referred to as "permanently deleted posts". This is something I did: I left Lemmy many months ago, partly because of the many phenomena I described: it feels frustrating to be yourself and being drown into either ghosting, downvoting, superficiality or prejudice, even though I tried not to bother... but what we write is fragments deep from our souls. I can understand the feeling of watching a reply vanishing with an entire post, it's frustrating... just as it's frustrating to watch a post being misread or ghosted because I was born akin to an extraterrestrial trying to communicate with fellow humans to no avail. That's why I often find myself "nuking" my own content: because there's no reason to keep a communication attempt that led to no meaningful and deep communication. I hope this clarifies one of the reasons why "Permanently deleted" could happen.
I see, I’m sorry for your bad experiences.
Or, ND content is simply ignored, ghosted, relegated to the void, either because NT people don’t know how to further engage with such a content, or because NT people couldn’t even bother to try and read it in the first place
while the ND/NT devide can have a significant effect on what kind of responses a long post may receive, I think about those who obviously didn’t read beyond the first 10 words in yet another way. I think they have a mental disorder of severe attention deficit. there’s some nuance to it, like sometimes the person is just in a hurry or something, but this can often be seen from the quality of the response because that 3rd type of person I mentioned is very prone to make very short, meaningless comments, which also have other properties I don’t know how to put into words, but which make you feel they didn’t even try to give something useful. and brainrot platforms like tiktok really don’t help with this worldwide issue.
That’s why I often find myself “nuking” my own content: because there’s no reason to keep a communication attempt that led to no meaningful and deep communication. I hope this clarifies one of the reasons why “Permanently deleted” could happen.
I see. Hmm. The cases where I find deletion problematic always had something useful in them, either the post or the threads.