I think it’s worth talking about as it seems to be very poir and it’s a major problem towards adoption, one of the several. I have a tendency to occasionally go through my post history to try and remember things I had forgotten about. Go look and see how the conversation may have changed since I last looked and stuff like that when I’m just sitting around bored.
What I have noticed with Lemmy is that way too many posts no longer exist, I’m getting really tired of being able to see something in my post history but then when I try to go to it having it be unable to be loaded and it no longer is around. Most of these threads are not even that old it seems to constantly happen, stuff that’s barely even a month back doesn’t exist anymore let alone the things that are further back.
Meanwhile on Reddit I can still go to threads from like almost 10 years ago and as long as they didn’t get hit by that phase where people went deleting their entire Post history everything is still there. I think the longevity of content is a pretty major issue. I’m not really sure what is causing it, if moderators are just randomly deleting threads, if people are randomly deleting their own stuff or if some instances have retention issues and delete older stuff.
Curious what others think about this, have you been running into it as well? Do you see it as a problem? Why or why not Etc
I find people deleting their post after a few answers have been provided to be a problem here on asklemmy. As a mod I sometimes serve a relatively short bam when this happens for no real reason. While it isn’t explicitly against the rules, I find it very much to be against the spirit of the board, and it’s really not fair to the ones who took their time to write a response nobody will ever read.
I think if the post is older than 7 days, its fair game to delete it. I mean, if it was really that important, you should’ve archive it.
Any deeply personal stuff like mental health or relationship stuff is also fair to delete like… whenever OP no longer feels comfortable it.
Why 7 days? An answered question is valuable forever.
Both are fair points. In the latter case I think OPs of such post should, as a courtesy, add a note that they intend to delete.