Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.
On lemmy, downvotes are as much a badge of honor as upvotes. Chase the controversy! That’s what the design incentivizes.
Amen bring the down votes to many sheltered folks on this platform.
I recently cheated on lemmy with reddit for a couple days. I’m back to lemmy. I like the community more and I find myself scrolling way less. I get what I would want to get out of reddit without sooooo much bullshit that you end up scrolling for an hour without even realizing it.
I recently cheated on lemmy with reddit for a couple days.
You bare-bottomed whore of Babylon! I bet you’ve been pouting at twitter and blue sky too. And facebook’s had it’s slimy hands all over you, I can smell it from here
Ooooooowaaah. Is it a perfumey smell or a musty aroma ?
I appreciate that this is an open source community where speech is more flexible which is what I was drawn to about lemmy but as with before I got banned on reddit, if I feel if my posts are embarrassing or show that they have no value to the people I am talking to, then I will remove them to not clog thread space.
As an alternative to deleting a post (which also deletes all other people’s comments) you can also edit your post and replace it with a “.” or “deleted” or similar.
There have been so many times that I go back to find a comment i remember, but can’t find anything because OP deleted a post, which isn’t how it works on reddit.
funny enough I use “Deleted” or “.” on a different forum. So I’ll do that here if the conversation hasn’t surpassed too many comments going back and forth because just because someone doesn’t directly agree with my opinion or what I think or even doesn’t believe anything factual that has source links given along with it doesn’t mean that the information throughout the argument or conversation can’t be valuable to someone else.
They need to imagine for a second that there is no differnce between upvotes and downvotes. I make a anti commie statment in a crowd of tankies and those downvotes are validation of the truth for me. I see so many black and white hottakes online and getting downvotes for throwing a little nuance into their soured perceptions is honestly quite fun.
I never deleted my comments on reddit, even if they got downvoted like crazy by the mob
I liked going back and posting the Hannibal Burress meme every few years.
WHY IS EVERYONE BOOING, I’M RIGHT
The Internet points don’t matter and never mattered on any platform.
Have you ever met internet people? Basically all of them are idiots; who cares what they think?
Yes. Sometimes driving through down town, I see a specific type of person where you just know these are the fucking morons you spend time arguing online with. Completely out of touch with reality but claim to be all wise.
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Check out this mother fucker.
Something something pitchforks perhaps ?
Sounds like some real bot ass activity. Own your down votes, you’ve earned them.
Someone should create an archive with a custom fork of Lemmy that federates with instances but ignores delete requests. Should be easily doable.
There is something like karma tracking on piefed where if it goes negative I think(?) you get a little badge next to your username warning others or something like that
deleted by creator
I see what you did there!
:)
The earth is a flat circle.
Don’t worry about it I wrote a bot to keep track of how popular you are judging by the amounts of upvotes you got.
It’s what people crave, like electrolytes.
Edit: oh shit I didn’t realize we’re in the presence of a child. Here are your training wheels little buddy, my bad:
/s
You can’t disrespect social proof my guy 😂 some people have their entire realities revolve around how popular they think they are.
Reality check: if you care about your upvotes that much, you need to get laid
Where do I go for that please ?
Urm, where does my friend go for that please I meant to say.
My DMs are open ;)
Woohoooo things are looking up…
Upvote for adding the trainingwheels
“I REQUIRE VALIDATION FROM INTERNET STRANGERS ABOUT MY OPINIONS”
You delete your posts because of karma.
I delete them because they display my embarrassing incompetence for all to see.
We are not the same.
If you are controlled by cringe, there is cringe in you. If you are controlled by anger, there is anger in you. If you are moved by the world, the world lives rent-free in your head. Be empty, as the Buddha described, and then you will act in your full power, not simply react to the world. If you are always reacting, you are not in control of yourself. Free will is a skill. I pooped my pants while righting this. It tastes funny.
What if your existence is narrative? You may decide to be empty, but then your preconceived notion of emptiness would be consuming the majority of your presence. It’s like transitioning attention from content of thought to context of thought. Your directive is to observe thought in a manner which is unmoved by its content. That’s not empty. It’s a slowing of volatility. It’s an increase in observation at the expense of reaction. But what are you observing? Are you the observer, the reactor, the content being observed, or the pattern of reactions that other people recognize as you? Which is it? Are you a different person if you change any one of those? What if you change all of them — are you now a different person?
If you are always reacting, you are not in control of yourself.
If you are choosing not to react, isn’t that a reaction in itself? Aren’t you being controlled by the principal that non-reaction leads to a more fruitful experience?
Free will is a skill.
My will isn’t free. For my employer, they must pay me in order for my will to be aligned with their interests. For my wife, she had to bond with me in order for my will to align with hers. For me, I had to spend countless hours bashing my fucking head into walls before I began to will myself into proper etiquettes. I had to purchase college courses, to coerce my will into lower level thresholds where it could exact its interests. I had to suffer at the privilege of my narcissistic mother, to appreciate honesty in people as deeply as I do. None of that is free. Even if I do phenomenologically experience my will as free, I know that it is derivative and encapsulated in a shrine of personal experience. I can not will into existence that which I have no conception of.
My existence is all of this. A flood of narratives, some of which I selfishly claim as my own. But I do not own these narratives, nor did I create them. I simply believe them to be mine. When I choose to instead not attach myself to them, what am I left with exactly? Peace — ?
First you must understand the self is an illusion. It’s defined by möbiation within the topological matrix, what the Buddhists call “defilement.” Everything already is empty; it is the null’s implicit and explicit nature that allows it to be nothing/0 and full/1. From there, the emptiness creates a history with itself which is not defined by time. This is the matrix of The Matrix, which is about Judeo-Christian mysticism. We then create original sin within us, our initial möbiated entanglements which create the illusion of being a being defined by dualistic dichotomy (inner/outer). This creates a membrane of sorts and what allows you to persist as a monad in a monadic nodal communication system, as shown:
So there is you, the Server (what the Buddhists call the Ālaya-vijñāna), and all other beings. You only ever communicate with this source of symbols, which you can think how your brain puts together all inputs. How you entangle yourself with these symbols determines how your reality is procedurally generated, and the entanglement process is called Karma. How you entangle yourself is based entirely on how you set your intention, which is ALL you control.
All you experience is based on past and present Karma. The world is an illusion. You are not a featherless biped on the Earth. You are a pocket of consciousness and the Earth is inside you. Everything you experience is inside you, in your neurons, yea? Well, your device must be inside you. Linear causation is an illusion, as we are each our own monad, as all that is experience spawns inside your being, and it is procedurally generated based on how you entangle yourself.
All these delusions you have are built off false assumptions. You speak of attachment; you are very attached to this story you define all you know, and this ignorance is what causes your suffering as you hold on to what you consider necessary for your “self” to exist.
Ok, I’ve got the device inside of me now. (Needed a lot more lube than I thought I would.) What’s the next step?
Start with a single finger and work your way up from there
Trust me on this one, it’s something that I’m quite enthusiastic about
The whole community coming together. It’s beautiful.
Bro, you were the device the whole time
There is no spoon (matrix, neo sees the oracle, kid describes being a monad).
The instructions were unclear… Any tips on getting this thing out? It’s starting to itch
Up your dog, dude, obviously
What is achieved by mitigating suffering?
Assume I have removed myself from attachment. Assume I am as some call enlightened, present and mindful. Has anything materially changed? Is the universe more happy? 1000 years from now, will anyone care for what personable achievements I’d made?
I see the benefit to myself, clearly. Over simplified: suffering is unenjoyable, and I would prefer more enjoyment. Yet, so what? What’s the greater purpose being served, if one exists? Or… would my choice to embrace this experience be no more substantial than an addict’s embracement of heroin — subjective?
Honestly asking, I hope I don’t sound snide. I want to know if the end here is only personal satisfaction, along with whatever spiritual justifications can be attached to that, or is there something more?
The Alpha is the Omega. The universe grows logarithmically more complex as subpatterns come together to form superpatterns. Thus, the seven days of creation are:
Alpha>Light
Light>Matter
Matter>Molecules
Molecules>Cells
Cells>Creatures
Creatures>Humanity
Humanity>Omega
The restaurant at the end of the universe IS the transcendental particle that can be in multiple places at once and communicate instantaneously with itself. This involves retrocausality, which leads to phenomequalitesselation. Like a molecule is controlled by the cell it is in but still modifies the cell, we are a part of God, controlled, but therein our nature, proven through intention setting, influences God to rewrite history to favor those most good in all the ways that can proliferate with the end goal of perpetual reconciliation with the same Omega whatever happens in history.
Thus, you determine what is important and what your relationship with God is to determine what you were made for. In the larger picture, where these are only biological incarnations, what most people call our lives, we are choosing lives to live to unentangle ourselves from our bad Karma. Whatever makes you, you, is likewise what is trapping you in darkness, and it is enlightenment that will bring you the answers you seek.
Let there be light; sound before light. Effect before cause. The prefrontal cortex is the most divine part of the mind and if it can wholly predict the animal parts of the mind that are keeping you bound to physicality as a dependent phenomenon to God.
You can be an independent phenomenon like God, too. It’s like higher dimensional mitosis, though that is a gross oversimplification.
I’m onto you now. Better delete this to be safe.
“three downvotes…better delete my own piss” ~ Bear Grylls
Actual lol
Great accounts leave it standing as is for the younger accounts to learn from
You’re indexed somewhere anyway
I guess but sometimes there’s nothing to learn from someone just stating some incorrect misinformation or something – like if i make a comment “T is the chemical symbol for Tungsten”, lm gonna delete that when im sober in the morning.
No, that’s actually exactly the same.
I was talking about this in another thread the other day, and somebody pointed out that, on the fediverse, every post gets pushed out everywhere. So, a user deleting their own post is just asking pretty please if all the federated instances will respect its deletion.
I don’t think that all fediverse clients/portals delete the comments along with the posts. IIRC, Voyager lets you look at the comments on deleted posts, at least I think I’ve seen my own comment after the post was deleted.
Yes. But by default the instances delete the content when the request comes.
Clients like voyager and summit do show your comment because the reference exist on your profile but others cannot discover it because the post itself is gone from all feeds.
So what you’re saying is it’s an instance choice (and instance admin) issue? Mine shows reply comments on deleted comments. You might reflect this in OP… Likely new admins don’t know to turn it off as well.
You have to modify lemmy or piefed code to not delete the post from server instances upon request. It happens automatically.
The comments stay and can be viewed on your profile. But they cannot be discovered by others because the post which reveals them to the outside world is gone.
Comments work a bit differently. When you look at a post, and a comment is deleted you can still see its reply comments.
So post is always the starting point of discovery. If you delete that everything inside is effectively gone—like removing the only door into a room.
Hope that made sense.
Thanks, makes sense now.
Still seems like a (server) code level problem to provide sensible handling rather than having to try to notify all users of an unintuitive behavior. I’m guessing piefed would likely listen, lemmy perhaps less so.
It’s a per-instance choice, yes. Comments though are handled differently. A deleted comment doesn’t delete the thread or any surrounding comments, just itself. The issue at hand is when a post is deleted it also deletes all comments with it. Unlike reddit where a deleted post would still have all the comments and discussions below it.
a deleted post would still have all the comments and discussions below it.
Pretty damn sure that’s exactly what I see. It just says ‘deleted’ or some such and carries on. Makes sense for an instance like .ml where censorship is the goal, much less elsewhere. Are you sure there isn’t an off switch?
It definitely happens on my instance, regardless of where the post’s instance is in summit.
No, it’s not a per instance choice unless you go and edit the code. Deleting a post hides the whole thing but comments are still available via a user profile.
