I've notice that posts in this community tend to get deleted, even ones with multiple comments and/or useful information. Even worse is when they get posted again by some other user a few days later.

What's going on? What's the policy around here?

  • yrmyli@sopuli.xyz
    344·
    1 year ago

    I posted news about Gnome + Shaman employee and it got deleted. It was legit article…

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      1 year ago

      OK, I did a search for "Gnome foundation shaman" and that led down a rabbithole of WTF. What the hell are they thinking with this person?

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    26·
    1 year ago

    re: Gnome and professional shaman – that one was pointed out pretty quickly as being misinformation (known troll with an archive.org post dated an hour before their “prank”)

    • moral_vacuum@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Could you link to information on this -specifically on any work debunking it. I can’t seem to find any in the usual places, in fact googling shows stuff like https://youtu.be/NrzseZQotu4?si=1rQtbo9mwfAEt4sL which seems to corroborate the weirder claims. I suppose the channel might be part of it.

      Having said that, this sure feels like a troll and it would be pretty funny if it were. Thanks!

    • Aatube@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Can you explain how exactly the evidence was created? Did some people create fake pages months in advance?

      • cerement@slrpnk.net
        11·
        1 year ago

        from the post debunking it, it was that it wasn’t “months in advance” that was the giveaway – for a website that she was supposed to have been using for several years for her business, the only snapshot archive.org had was dated an hour before the accusations started getting posted

        • Aatube@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          Ah, I was thinking about the claimed social media pages though. I'm currently at "work" so I can't verify yet.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    132·
    1 year ago

    In general, I find that a lot of communities have overly strict rules. I posted a news article a while back to c/news and they deleted it because it was "not us news". At the moment I forget what the article was, but it was definitely of interest to us citizens, it just happened outside the US. Things like that have happened so often that I'm less likely to even try to post stuff

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        72·
        1 year ago

        I agree. I actually had no idea it was US news. Yes I know we should read rules and all but that seems like a stupid rule

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        Yeah true. And in this case they were so adamant about it being us centric that they didn't care that it was one of those stories that impacts the us in a significant way…

    • frippa@lemmy.ml
      101·
      1 year ago

      The balls of naming a community "news" and removing stuff that isn't of interest to a small fraction of the world population on an instance that should represent the whole world.

  • Nine@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I guess it largely depends on the instance and user. Federation allows things to talk but users and their home instances still have ownership of the data. So if a user removes it it’s gone. If the instance goes away it’s gone.

    At least that’s my basic understanding. I haven’t had the time to really explore how everything works and do a deep dive. So if I’m wrong someone please correct me!