I’ve seen this happen a bunch of time now that people just ask a question and it’s deleted a day or so later. Do they delete the question themselves, or is that some automatic thing? If they do it themselves, why?

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Thanks for the great answers so far. Very insightful. Please keep them coming, I’m curious to more points of view.

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    Often, they just spin up a disposable account, post, and delete the whole account w/content after they’re done. It’s annoying AF and incredibly selfish. For a while, it was the same person doing it, though not sure if that’s still the case.

    Regardless, those people have ruined things for everyone and I will not engage with accounts newer than 30 days. Lemm.ee evacuation notwithstanding, I kinda wish other people took a similar stance and maybe these people will knock that off.

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      I agree. It’s annoying and selfish. I often go back to older threads I’ve participated in to see other people’s points of view, to see if maybe I missed something. But to then see “permanently deleted” or words of that effect, that’s just sad. I can’t learn from those. No one can.

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        OTOH, it’s understandable given the endless apettite tech has for profiling people. The Fediverse is not Big Tech, but Big Tech wants all the data anyway, and given its open nature, it will get it eventually. Temporary accounts are a way to make it a bit harder for Big Tech, at the cost of making it worse for legitimate users.

        If the Fediverse had some protection against data greed, maybe less people would be wary of leaving a long data trail. The best it can do so far is using nicknames and multiple accounts.

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        I’m the dev of Tesseract.

        New accounts have badges that show their age if they’re between 0 and 30 days old (among other tricks up my sleeve)

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          Ah I saw that In your account, it took me two minutes to load it up because of my shitty internet and partly the connect client so I was sure there’s no way you would check each time.

          I wish I could do site wide badges for stuff like that but at the end of the day I only ever recognise the one person who give me the shits on lemmy and I have them flagged haha.

          Everyone else I figure is out with good intentions until they prove otherwise

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            Unrelated to the thread, but love your username (took me a minute to get it)

            Also, yeah, love the “good intentions until proven otherwise” attitude. Two years here have nearly beaten that out of me (despite me knowing better).