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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.

That you know of!?! 🤪

Omg it does look like it doesn't it!? :-P

Naw it's there, just hidden very well.

Not me 😋🙃😜🥴

Skill issue, git guud (MAJOR /s ... mostly)

Was looking for this comment and was not disappointed:-)

I cannot Access the words to describe this.

Yup. The most batshit insane comments I've ever heard come from there. I think it may have to do with the echo chamber effect, where they continually pass around their ideas to one another but anyone who actually scrutinizes them gets booted out, so what's left is just a hot mess.

I've never once regretted my decision to block ml. I have enjoyed some conversations with people on there in the past, but overwhelmingly it simply is not worth it to me.

And with alternatives not being developed or promoted or made easier to use bc Cloudflare exists and is so cheap i.e. free. Hrm, what does this remind me of...? (*cough* Google's Android *cough*)

Good riddance to Reddit. Unfortunately there are certain niche topics that are discussed only where people choose to discuss them, and if that means Reddit than so be it... 🤢🤮 (though I now lurk rather than comment or even vote - it just not seem worthwhile to engage while having to be constantly on guard against the heavily contentious user base there, plus also fuck spez obviously 🙃).

Here on the Threadiverse I got so tired of blocking so many people that I graduated to blocking entire instances. Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are already defederated from on PieFed.social, but I also blocked lemmy.ml. Not for the communism btw - slrpnk and dbzero are true communist instances - but for all the continual assholery and alternative facts spouting, it simply improved my experiences here by 99% to do so.

I understand very well why new people flee rather than stick in long enough to figure out how things work enough to do the same. This is just one more reason why, despite how often people talk about being desperate to leave X behind, the Fediverse model is not even considered. If we don't make this a place welcoming to non-technical normie users, then they... I dunno, won't feel welcomed, I suppose? (And exceedingly few instances seem willing to defederate from lemmy.ml, or even make it opt-in for new users rather than simply throwing them straight into the deep end and leaving them to their own devices.) Also I see multiple conversations here dedicated to promoting murder (of politicians or whoever), so I wonder how much longer it will be safe to access such "antifa" current (at least that is what it will be labeled as, language correctness having been entirely set aside) for people located in the USA - which makes up such an exceedingly large fraction of the Reddit (and former Reddit) user base.