I’m getting annoyed with people that ask a question, have the community answer their question and troubleshoot over several days, only to delete their post and the solution.
The person asking the question is often providing the least amount of effort, so why should they have exclusive right to delete the contributions of others?
Possible fix: have a per-community option to only request deletion.
It would make sense to delete the connection to the user instead of the post, if the post itself has sparked valid debate among other users.
So the post could live on with being posted by abandoned.
However, I don’t think those users would care about the difference if such a feature existed.
The default behavior drives me crazy because EVERY comments in a chain gets deleted if the first commenter deletes theirs
I guess it’s difficult to do in a way where people can exercise their right to be forgotten if the post or comments contain information about OP in any way.
Not really, reddit did it fine. It shows [removed by user] posted by [deleted] and the chain stays in tact.
There is no right to be forgotten on the internet, especially on the fediverse. Anyone looking for data can just roll their own implementation that just marks “deleted” posts or comments as “potentially interesting” instead. If you don’t want anyone to see something you said, the only option that works is to not say it in the first place. This applies to the whole internet, just the fediverse is set up for it to be even easier to automatically archive it all.