Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.

However, now that’s old news, and my account is totally gone.

I won’t miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.

  • Boinketh@lemm.ee
    411·
    1 year ago

    Or that they just can’t solve a problem. I’m all for fucking over reddit, but individual users get hit way harder than reddit when you delete posts containing technical info.

    • bluefirex@lemmy.world
      72·
      1 year ago

      Finally some sane voice. People don’t seem to think 2cm in front of their nose.

    • KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl
      2·
      1 year ago

      I agree, reddit gets most of their traffic from the engagement surrounding the latest shitposts and low-effort memes. (Or just genuine community content if you prefer)

      Months old posts are hardly relevant to large scale user engagement and it’s unlikely that the one user trying to solve a problem by visiting a years old thread is going to have much of an impact.

      If people are going to move away from the site in a healthy manner, they need to realise for themselves that it’s time to move on. Better to have a bunch of hopeful and curious people looking for new opportunities rather than bitter and resentful users which are going to vent their frustration elsewhere.

      • Boinketh@lemm.ee
        11·
        1 year ago

        And Lemmy will probably not have the answer they’re looking for. As someone who has seen the answer to my problems most likely be in deleted comments before, fucking don’t. It doesn’t make anyone more likely to look at Lemmy, it just makes their lives harder in an already unbearably stressful world.

        If you want to purge your memes and witty comments, go for it. Just leave the valuable technical information FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

          • Boinketh@lemm.ee
            4·
            1 year ago

            But for individuals, it either does or it doesn’t. It doesn’t matter if someone in a few years happens to ask the same question and get an answer on Lemmy.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        1 year ago

        I tried a few times already searching for somewith with lemmy like

        [technical issue] lemmy
        or
        [technical issue] [instance]

        Guess how many results came up from that…The SEO right now is shit for those instances and discoverability. Searching for reddit will currently will not even mention something to lemmy or similiar.