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.
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
“I REQUIRE VALIDATION FROM INTERNET STRANGERS ABOUT MY OPINIONS”
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.
Someone should create an archive with a custom fork of Lemmy that federates with instances but ignores delete requests. Should be easily doable.
Ah yes, fediverse would love that /s
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.
