

Deleting a post also removes all comments on it.
This really needs to change. OP shouldn’t have control over the conversations everyone’s having, even if they can remove their portions of it. Even reddit didn’t give OP that power, even if it was removed from the sub page.
FWIW some instances/front ends preserve the comments section, although it ends up being a bit jank. For example, if you load this through lemmy.zip, it shows as an error because OP deleted it. But if you go through old.lemmy.zip you can still see (most of) the comments, although not what the original post was.
https://lemmy.zip/post/65423752
https://old.lemmy.zip/post/65423752




I dunno the ins and outs of wiki infighting, but I don’t think one person should have control over whether hundreds of comments get seen or not. Unfortunate if people can quote things that put you in a bad light but unless things are taken out of context maybe just think harder about what you post in the first place.