Once again agreed, but there is always merit in the growth period where user-interests and mod-interests are aligned to facilitate open and honest discussion before the platform becomes enshittified as you suggest. It’s one of the reasons why many of us left reddit for greener pastures.

I believe we are still in this beneficial growth period, and that lemmy still has some time before the community saturates in its usefulness, but if you think that is not the case then no one should stop you from seeking other places to get good content.

I sadly don’t have a github :'-)

I agree, you could ask a search engine which is gamed to give you the most promoted result instead of the best one, or you could indeed ask an AI which is trained to give you an aesthetically pleasing answer that may or may not be without substance…

More simply, you could just reach out to the wider community and get a reasonably up-to-date answer with an easy back and forth from others in the same situation without any worry about nefarious incentives.

I guess it depends on how you measure what a good and trustworthy answer is.

It does stimulate discussion, and as someone who has passively thought about this problem in tmux, but not actively tried to fix it, OP has enriched my life with their post.

The snark really isn’t that warranted

https://lemmy.ml/post/28337445/17874696

I guess I don’t want to prolong this discussion too much, and I do thank you both for conversing with me so deep to this point.

I hope you can understand a little bit where I’m coming from, where a user such as myself cannot work out whether a post / account was purged due to a user being banned for NSFL content, or because mods are doing something nefarious. Unlike the modlog where decisions are transparent, we just have to take it on good faith that the user was bad.

I thank you for explaining the implementation difficulties in this regard. From the top-level, it does not seem that difficult to me to annotate a dead post with a comment about why a user was deleted (I’m assuming there’s a user-deletion log somewhere at the admin instance-level (or even a shared user-ban-list propogated across instances?) this info can be pulled from), but I suppose I can understand how it might be an extra layer of complexity trying to sync such actions.

Aim: Find out why a post is missing

Ideally: Deleted Post -> Deleted User -> Reason for deletion

Reality:

1. The post is missing, this event does not show up in the modlog for posts
2. One reason given is that the posts are purged when the user’s account was deleted
3. To verify this, one needs to know the poster’s username in advance, but this info is not visible from the deleted post.
4. …
5. Trawl through the modlog for deleted users and hope you find one connected to the post in question
6. Take it on good faith that the user and all their posts were deleted for good reason.

You know what I’m asking for, can you please meet me mid-way

Ah I see, so there never will be a userbanlog implemented due to GDPR?

I understand, but is there no userbanlog to check as well, where a deleted post is tied to a banned user?

okay, so different instances can refer to the same post (or they clone it?) but each has their own visibility rules about it.

I guess that makes sense. Some kind of visibility guide or indicator would be fantastic here, I’m finding the loss of posts with (seemingly) no explanation a bit bewlidering

That makes sense, but I’m just wondering if there’s any way for an end-user such as myself can easily see this (e.g. modlog, userbanlog, or otherwise) to verify.

From my perspective, I hope you can understand how bewildering it is to have this record gap.

That’s the cause, which I did mention in my initial post - but I’m looking for a solution regarding how this could be a bit more transparent.

What the actual hell. There’s nothing in the fedimemes modlog for why it was deleted, and also, the post itself doesn’t appear deleted in my history…

Uhh… these projects are the backbone of the free and modern web. How is less funding a good thing?

If you accept, there’s no guarantee he won’t change the deal later. He’s a chud.

It might have to do with your I2C? Install ddcutil and tell us what it detects

You do get used to it to some degree, but yes please bring the keyboards back

The backbone of our prime minister is so strong that people often stretch it out and use it as a contraceptive

SLAMMED