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.
I think a number if post deletions are to avoid the negative comments coming in since there’s no way to turn off inbox interaction or notifications per post.
I know you can turn off notifications all together, but I don’t want that either. I just want to mute posts where I keep getting negative replies to.
I guarantee you that there are people out there who are contributing inflammatory or subpar material because you cannot mute notifications on certain posts
I can guarantee this because that’s exactly what I did when reddit went to shit. when they removed my ability to disable notifications, I just stopped checking my inbox for a couple days after saying something that I knew would get tons of responses. and I stopped being careful to avoid inflammatory comments, whether intentional or unintentional, because I just wouldn’t read my inbox. so the net contribution from me was a huge negative from my previous behaviour