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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I went to reply to a thread on this post and it is completely gone? Is this an error with federation or some thing? I haven't seen this happen before.

Example broken link: https://lemmy.world/comment/20219960

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[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Unlike Reddit, when a user or mod deletes a post on Lemmy, its entire thread becomes completely inaccessible.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Such a novel concept these days. When you delete something it actually gets deleted.

[-] Kaldo@fedia.io 11 points 11 months ago

Wasn't the philosophy completely the opposite in the fediverse since when something gets deleted, it just politely asks other federated servers to delete their copies of that content too and they could just... not do it?

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

Yup

Can also happen that the delete request gets lost due to network or downtime problem

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I hate when people be replying some stoopid shit and I go to correct them and the thread is gone. I want to correct you, damnit!

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 5 points 11 months ago

Here, you can correct me and feel more gooder. The area of a circle is pie are good

[-] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

There is nothing to correct because pie ARE good

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago

And pie are, generally, circle.

[-] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

No, pie are squared.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hey, you corrected them on needing to be corrected. Well done!

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

not really. It's rather when you delete something you posted, you delete lots of things other people posted.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

It does not. It's still there in the databases.

[-] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 12 points 11 months ago

That usually means it was deleted, either by the user or an admin.
Afaik, there isn't any way to be sure.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 11 months ago
[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, that's too bad. There was a lot of great discussion going on.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 11 months ago

On a positive note, a Dev responded to that post indicating that the behaviour of the platform is being reviewed.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Cool! I wonder how piefed does it

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I don't mind stuff being gone. Life is ethereal, live with it.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

I was thinking the same thing, I'm pissed too because I was planning on coming back and downloading some of the TUI packages that had been mentioned, but when I went to reference the post it was gone. Guess I'll go fuck myself lol.

[-] remon@ani.social 2 points 11 months ago

Hopefully it was deleted and the OP redirected to one of the gazillion linux communities.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I guess we disagree. I thought it was a great discussion-generating post. Linux isn't off topic in askLemmy afaik.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Late to the party, but to answer the question asked by the thread, we're probably obsessively checking for new updates to install.

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