[Meta] What happened to "Linux users, what are you doing on your laptop?" (self.asklemmy)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by sem to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Kaldo@fedia.io 10 points 5 days 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 3 points 4 days ago

Yup

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

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago

There is nothing to correct because pie ARE good

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

And pie are, generally, circle.

[-] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

No, pie are squared.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days 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 5 days ago

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

[-] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 12 points 5 days 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 5 days ago

See: https://lemmy.radio/post/10006706

[-] sem 1 points 4 days ago

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

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 points 4 days ago

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

[-] sem 1 points 4 days ago

Cool! I wonder how piefed does it

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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

[-] remon@ani.social 4 points 5 days ago

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

[-] sem 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025

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