There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

I think thread deletion is problematic and needs some consideration and changes

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].

davel ,
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  1. By thread deletion do you mean post deletion or comment deletion or both?
  2. By deletion, do you mean user deletion or mod/admin removal or both?
MaximilianKohler OP ,
  1. Yes, posts, not comments.
  2. I didn’t specify because I’m not sure how/if it works differently. But I think they were deleted by mods.
BitSound ,

IMO Hacker News handles this better. Threads/comments are rarely deleted, they’re mostly minimized and you have to log in to expand them

MBM ,

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.

MaximilianKohler OP ,

I posted this thread to [email protected], so I think there should be a fediverse link to the thread on [email protected].

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