In an attempt to boost activity I’ve tried to answer a few questions in this, and similar communities. Looking for an old comment, I found out that a bunch of posts I’d answered are now *Permanently Deleted*, and what’s that about? If they’re LLM slop there’s enough of it I’d rather just block the community so as to not waste any time.
Some communities simply purge old posts.
Then they fucking stupid and we will never grow Lemmy as a legit site.
Some instances are hosted and paid for by people that don’t have lots of money. Purging old posts to save costs is a valid reason to do so. Whether or not that’s the case, I have no idea.
It depends on a particular community.
Communities like nostupidquestions are not expected to have posts with important news or problems one might google a year later.
Tech-focused communities, on the contrary, are expected to keep posts forever, so that important information will be accessible. However, some people delete their posts after their problem is solved. This is highely discouraged.
And Lemmy ain’t just one site. Yeah.
Hm. Kind of a weird thing to be doing then. I know storage prices are up and all, but that half kilobyte of text?
One post is a couple of kilobytes, but there are hundreds of posts daily, you know. Also comments, also attachments. And no community exists in vacuum, they are parts of much larger instance servers. So this is among the least disruptive ways to save storage space.