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].
- By thread deletion do you mean post deletion or comment deletion or both?
- By deletion, do you mean user deletion or mod/admin removal or both?
- Yes, posts, not comments.
- I didn’t specify because I’m not sure how/if it works differently. But I think they were deleted by mods.
IMO Hacker News handles this better. Threads/comments are rarely deleted, they’re mostly minimized and you have to log in to expand them
Useful info from an admin about why one of the threads went missing: https://lemmy.world/comment/11288468
There seems to be room for improvement in how Lemmy handles this.
EDIT: I see that the “fediverse” link for posts has been removed.
It’s still there, just not when the post/comment comes from the instance you’re on. Even though the post is to a lemmy.ml community, it’s from lemmy.world so that’s where the fediverse link goes to.
I posted this thread to [email protected], so I think there should be a fediverse link to the thread on [email protected].
There’s no real reason to. Your own instance (in this case, lemmy.world) has the real view of the thread by the virtue of being the instance starting the thread. lemmy.ml only has it’s own copy of this thread that’s likely reasonably accurate (compared to any other random instance out there, considering it hosts the community), but it’s not the original version, which is what the fediverse link points to.
