cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54923731
Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.
It doesn’t even take that. Sometimes it just takes one opinion literally anywhere that one tankie sees that hurts their feelings, and they brigade away. It’s totally random. I’ve enjoyed them doing that on shitposts and memes on sub’s totally unrelated to .ml madness.
It also makes me think that there’s only actually like 10 or 20 tankies that each cycle through 30 accounts each, and one guy in Beijing that runs the “Propaganda: Other Platforms” desk coordinating of all. Or maybe that’s just a function of their groupthink. Hard to say.
I’m still new to Lemmy but yeah I’ve noticed that too. They show up anywhere they see stuff they don’t like.
What’s kind of fun is you can basically summon them by saying “Trotsky wouldn’t have been better than Stalin” three times in a mirror.
“Numbers, math, measures, and money were all independently invented my numerous civilizations because they are all usefull things.”