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.
I had a comment removed from c/veganscomplaining or whatever their community is that showed up like that when they censored it.
Same. I’ve gotten a few replies with a blank comment. It’s weird.
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”
hmmmm ive seen image-only comments viewed like this on lemmy when sent from non-lemmy platforms
example
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.
