Why YSK: On reddit only the body was editable, so by knowing this you won’t need to delete or resubmit due to wrong URL, typo, etc.

  • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    1 year ago

    That’s the default behavior here on my home instance, I’ve noticed. If I delete a comment, it’s still shown that I was there, so I find myself thinking it over more.

      • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s a good question, and I don’t know any of the specifics, but the apps are doing their best to implement features provided by each instance, and federation is made possible by way of their common underlying code (ActivityPub). When things act up in the app it’s likely because different instances handle different things locally. Voting is a good example, some instances and communities effectively turn it off.

          • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 year ago

            You should probably know that deleting your comments on reddit is pretty ineffective. They don’t discard the actual content of your post from their database, and there are websites whose sole purpose is to host undelete archives of reddit threads. I can’t verify this but I’ve also heard they’re rolling back a lot of comment deletion after the recent drama.

            That’s the part I don’t really get about people’s attachment to reddit identities, in hindsight that’s a ten year history of things I was dumb enough to share on the internet and I’d gladly wipe that slate clean if it were a real option.