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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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that will help somewhat in the future when lemmy gets its shit together, but since I came to lemmy deleted posts cannot be loaded at all, even though the server still has the comments
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I haven't noticed many posts deleted by the user themselves. I see a lot of 'deleted by user' comments. I try to remember to put [SOLVED] on any serious post I make, after the fact. That way, someone searching can cross-moginate whatever their issues are with what solved the issue for me. Maybe the user deleting the post once it was solved is embarrassed they asked a supposedly 'stupid' question?
I try to remember to put [SOLVED] on any serious post I make, after the fact.
You (and folks who do the same) are unsung heroes. Thank you.
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It'd be helpful to put some links to known good resources for common questions in the e.g. about page.
Also are you suggesting we don't ask or don't ask and then delete?
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Unfortunately, this is nothing new. Forums have been dealing with this for decades. XKCD even made a comic about forum posts going stale.
Not really the same issue. The xkcd is about unsolved or incompletely resolved issues. This Herr is about questions vanishing along with the answers.
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I did notice a post that was looking for help, then apparently labelled "solved"... then deleted for some reason. 😞
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I have mixed feelings on post deletion. On the one hand, historical technical forum conversations are an incredibly valuable resource, and /c/selfhosted is a technical community. The value comes from having a history in context, and deleting part of the context damages the whole and makes the whole corpus less useful overall. It also allows incorrect or outdated information to fester when there isn't a strong historical context that can be referenced.
On the other hand, people are right to be concerned about leaving large tracts of text available on the open internet, where it can be scraped, profiled, and possibly de-anonymized. I am very sympathetic to those who delete out of concerns for their own privacy, and I don't know what a good solution is.
Maybe a compromise would be (on user "delete") to leave the contents of a post intact, but simply delete the username from the post, and the post from the user's history? Deletion on the fediverse is a bit of a sham anyway, and it would leave valuable discussions intact for other users.
I think a good solution would be to create a community specifically to connect people who don't want to share their posts and people willing to provide individual help. They could find each other and DM a conversation. Milking a public forum for advice and then vandalizing it by deleting the post is definitely NOT a good solution, and I do not share your sympathy for people who do that. It's like curtaining off a few back rows of a bus to use all day as an office - although that could have been funny in a Seinfeld episode.
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If you post something to a federated platform, it is literally never deleted. There is no privacy to be gained from deleting posts from the fediverse.
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I imagine this is a controversial opinion....but isn't the idiomatic solution to this to either:
petition the mods to get this rule added and enforced
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To start a community that enforces this rule and let it compete with this one.
Isn't that the whole idea of federation?
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