I have noticed this is occuring more and more. It is a problem that started to crop up on reddit but now I’m seeing here more often. Do you not want other people to benefit from the answers you received? This community is kind of pointless if you just get an answer and wipe it from the web.
Given how AI is scraping the web for training, I can appreciate how some people might not want to leave their personal data around for some company to use without their permission.
This is just a speculation on my part, as I have no data to back that assertion up. So, grain of salt and all.
That’s actually a moot point on Lemmy as it only guarantees regular users lose convenient access. And there is ZERO presumption of privacy everywhere on the fediverse. The system is not designed for that, even when it comes to deleted posts.
I get that. I also wonder how many Lemmy users get that?