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(1) some communities choose to delete their posts periodically after some time period. Usually they clearly say this in their sidebar. Communities dedicated to memes - where fresh turnover is expected - are going to be more likely to use such practices than those dedicated to discussions of scientific topics.
(2) The Threadiverse does not currently inform you when your content has been removed by a moderator or admin. The only way you find out that happened is when you go looking for it and poof it's gone, or if you are a weirdo who constantly checks the modlog for your account name for some reason. I think Lemmy is going to add a feature to change this in the near future? Here is yours - the phenomena is rare for you but not absent, e.g. perhaps you are wondering about your post "What's with the insane level of recalls of late?" - well now you know, the mod did not like it.
(3) As others have said, the longevity is in the Threadiverse, but unless you self-host your own instance, so long as you rely on some other instance admins and post to some other community where you are not a moderator, you have given up control to others to take care of your content, on their terms. This will never not be true, so the longevity here lies in the fact that unlike Reddit or X or Bluesky, we are not controlled by a single monolithic profit-hungry corporate entity - e.g. it is not possible to spin up your own little Reddit, but you can spin up your own little PieFed, Lemmy, or Mbin (or Mastodon, Friendica, etc.). So you can have longevity here, if the admins and mods want that, whereas on Reddit you couldn't really.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/6057
Very relevant, thank you. @rimu@piefed.social may want to do the same for Piefed - e.g. if someone asks a technicial question and a bunch of people provide very helpful answers, then OP deleting the question perhaps should not have total control over the answers to it, for someone that has a direct link to the conversation.
We discussed it a few weeks ago: https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/3-general/topic/Keep.20comments.20of.20deleted.20posts/with/7377