In the last few weeks, I frequently see some empty comments. It’s just the username and no text beneath.
Is there a deeper reason behind this? Do people nowadays strip away the text instead of deleting a comment? Or did some script surface that ‘makes the internet forget’? First I thought people did this before deleting a comment and the deletion just didn’t get federated. But I scrolled through some older posts and they also still have comments like that, so that can’t be it. Right?
Can anyone educate me?
If I delete my post/comment, I first edit it to be blank because it can take way more time to actually delete the post/comment than just editing it. They’ll appear as just a completely blank post (not even any unicode spaces or weird shit like that). I started doing this after seeing other users doing the same for the reason I mentioned.
Same. I’ve gotten a few replies with a blank comment. It’s weird.
hmmmm ive seen image-only comments viewed like this on lemmy when sent from non-lemmy platforms
example
Empty when viewing from Voyager
deleted by creator
This comment does not show an image when viewed on lemmy.world. The image is also missing viewed on lemm.ee. The original Mastodon post does have an image.
deleted by creator
I had a comment removed from c/veganscomplaining or whatever their community is that showed up like that when they censored it.
deleted by creator
Can’t see it on desktop web.
I can’t see any gif, using Boost.
For some reason, attachments to comments posted from Kbin/Mbin don’t seem to appear for Lemmy users.
Are you using the eternity app ?
Cause I have noticed deleted comments showing up as blank. While on the web version the show up as “deleted by Creator”
