OP is expecting the deletion of posts and comments to federate in the same ways posting them would. I don’t think they’re necessarily going scorched earth and care about someone quoting their comment in a reply or resharing a photo.

I think that’s a bit grandiose of a stance. If I misread what someone said or realized someone already said what I did I don’t think deleting it leads to any kind of growth.

That’s setting aside how draining it can be to reply to several people who are making the same argument about how you are wrong. If I couldn’t delete what I posted at that point I would just be creating a slew of edits to justify myself like people regularly do on Reddit whenever they get downvoted.

But that’s not what is being talked about. I don’t think OP is expecting an all or nothing situation. You’re talking like you’ve never deleted anything online

But deleting stuff is an easy way to limit the amount of potential viewers.

Most people aren’t going to put in the effort. If OP’s account deletion spreads across most of Lemmy, even just the larger instances, most people aren’t going to see their older posts.

That seems to be what OP is after. More in line with hiding poorly written Doctor Who fan fiction than hiding from the government in the woods.

Don’t you think that’s shifting the goalpost a bit? OP isn’t talking about something being archived they’re talking about a piece of content on social media still directly linking to that username.

Deleting things in as many places as possible making it harder to access is still a net positive.

It’s about as much of a part or mechanic of Lemmy as posting is.

If you want specifics like that you may want to pick a smaller instance.

It can be hit and miss whether you’ll have issues until you try

Oh thank you for explaining

Why would the upgrade equate to more monthly active users?

Might have a bit to do with the regular admin posts where they talk about leaving Lemmy all together.

Their chat communities occasionally have some decent stuff

I think it necroing posts on Reddit makes sense. There’s a lot of very specific posts that can vary slightly from each other but I find with forums you can get a general post for a topic that has 30+ pages of responses and it can be a bit of a pain to comb through all of them at times. In my experience I see a lot of people linking to other comments in the forum because something has already been brought up a few times.

This is basically what @technomad@slrpnk.net said about beating a dead horse but I feel like it’s slightly more tolerable with a Reddit style system where there’s more posts with at least minor differences. It’s a bit easier to follow.

This could also just be the forums that I have used shaping my opinion

I agree with your points. Especially the third one. I do hope a majority of instances op-out of locking posts but I could see large instances like lemmy.world definitely jumping to do it and focus more on new content and expansion

On Reddit or here you mean?

I feel like Reddit’s version of bump was people commenting This all the time

I get what you mean but I think it’s a decent way to breath some life into older small communities and show the people posting there it wasn’t for nothing. The relevancy of a post doesn’t always have to fade as well.

I still prefer people posting new content but I think engaging with old posts can be beneficial.

My point was so far it’s been a one-off. That’s like the people who come to Lemmy and get one rude response and complain that Lemmy is hostile and no better than Reddit

Yeah but this the first time it’s happened to you right?

You just said

Just recently I was actually arguing with some people and pointing out that I’d never had my stuff removed on Lemmy even though I have some viewpoints that are way more unpopular than “Israel shouldn’t kill civilians.”

and are complaining when one of your comments get removed. From your post it doesn’t seem like a trend of the fediverse

Maybe they were worried about things escalating? Your comment also didn’t support Hamas so maybe they didn’t think it had value outside of potentially starting a heated debate in the comment section that was unrelated to the article.

And now, the Reddit mod philosophy has arrived here.

With how many communities and instances there are and how wildly they can differ from each other I don’t think that’s true.

Is this to block ads?

Interesting. Once the development of Lemmy slows down a couple years from now it would be interesting to see a video detailing the hiccups around its growth