From what I understand, this is more about legitimately good posts getting deleted and basically the solid info amid the responses getting lost/inaccessible as a result. Despite the decreased anonymity, the loss of information for the hive mind is severer than on Reddit, where deleted stuff can still show up in search engines, or something like that. I don't remember the details of how it works but it's a mounting problem with Lenny's design. Perhaps a better explanation by me elsewhere in this post: https://programming.dev/comment/24979223

Actually, this is one of the biggest longevity-harming issues with the way Lemmy works: people ask a legitimate question, it gets a great answer, and the original poster deletes the entire submission once satisfied. Access to even the responses seems to be totally cut off versus (Old?) Reddit in which you can still view the discussions if you have a link to the post. At least that's how I've been understanding it. I mean, I saw a notice by a Lemmy mod in a Q&A tech community once (can't remember which, but I can try to look for it) asking people to not delete their posts once they get answers.

Why not try to protect the general populace?

Dragonflies live their entire lives full of violence from birth to death. They don't care about plants, and are constantly killing and eating other bugs and avoiding/getting eaten by all larger predators at every stage of their lives. They also eat hundreds of mosquitoes once airborne. It's unfortunate that OP got bitten, but they're absolutely incredible hunters that are on our side.

Oh, I see: I had to move to the "tech" category. Why doesn't it default to "all?" Thanks, either way.

Never mind; I see that there are separate search engines for signing up vs. logging in, just to first find the instance. Wild. It also doesn't have beehaw.org nor lemmy.one.

Worse; they're soulless!

Hey, where's your NSFW spoiler tag?! /s

Kudos for your team's dedication to privacy. That makes me feel more interested in this app (of which I had no idea existed until now).

What collection are these animations from? I have seen this around, but have never seen a name set to them.

Same... All the flash drive stuff and program incompatibility had scared me for too long... But now I'm not afraid to, like, even go to estate sales and try to find a dirt-cheap, old machine to slap Linux on and run it down into the ground until the next one lol. I can live without Cyberpunk 2077.

I take the remote and mute the ad for its duration.

Wow, that's... kind of impressively sophisticated for the system to pick up on that.

But wait, aren't the ads account-tailored?