Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • SamC@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    Haven’t been following Lemmy development recently, but are there moves to change how deleting posts works? It seems a bit shit that someone can just delete entire threads. If they want to delete their own posts, then fine, but they shouldn’t be able to memory hole all the replies.

    I am not too worried about bots posting discussion threads. Sometimes there are probably people who might post in the discussion threads but don’t want to create the thread.

    Potentially you wouldn’t have to mark it as a bot? Since it only ever posts on your server, you don’t have to require it to be marked as a bot. People can always block that account if they really want to.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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      10 months ago

      Haven’t been following Lemmy development recently, but are there moves to change how deleting posts works? It seems a bit shit that someone can just delete entire threads. If they want to delete their own posts, then fine, but they shouldn’t be able to memory hole all the replies.

      I’m not aware of any real functional changes to Lemmy being worked on. I’m also a bit out of the loop, but they are working on 0.19 and I’m pretty sure it’s backend stuff like a rewrite of the API.

      Potentially you wouldn’t have to mark it as a bot? Since it only ever posts on your server, you don’t have to require it to be marked as a bot. People can always block that account if they really want to.

      It just seems wrong 😆. I guess if there were no objections we could do this. You’re right, so long as we stay in our corner, it shouldn’t affect others too much. It would still be a bot post showing in All for many people, though.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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          10 months ago

          That’s just comments, right? So if you delete a comment, currently all sub-comments are lost but this would fix that.

          I have a brief read through but it didn’t seem like they were targeting post removal.

          • SamC@lemmy.nz
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            10 months ago

            Yes, it only seems to talk about comments. But it seems to me the intention is not to delete entire threads when someone deletes their account (which is good, because it doesn’t make any sense to do that). Whether the changes will fix it for posts I’m not sure, but it seems like they’ll fix it eventually anyway.