Okay I’m just gonna call somebody out - Imperious_melange just deleted a thread with over 200 upvotes where a thriving discussion was underway. It was about whether people perceived a pro-China and anti-west sentiment on Lemmy. I tried to post a reply and the site said “deleted by creator”. The thread was just gone. They also seem to have deleted their account, so I can’t even PM them. That’s all just a huge dick move.
Bingpot! Features trump objections, which is how any industry knows it doesn’t really have to listen to users all that much. Because deep down, addicts really don’t care if their heroin is ethically sourced from sustainably managed small-lot producers.
BREAKING - Release 0.1 of DON’T is now available - DON’T does absolutely nothing when you start it, except to present an enormous Consent List of everything it can do if you let it. Outraged digital freedom advocates are criticizing what they call excessive download times, sluggish support, and that the app takes up memory space without doing anything.
BREAKING - developers just released DONT on an app that does absolutely nothing unless authorized. The When you run it, it just sits there but has an enormous checklist
And yet free opensource software exists. Lots of knowledgeable people are happy to help others during their free time.
I spent many years as a software dev contractor working through agencies, but I still don’t see the parallel.
Somebody pointed out that the person might be afraid they gave so much info that their post gets de-anonymized - but IMO people afraid of that shouldn’t post on public forums to begin with.
I think a good solution would be to create a community specifically to connect people who don’t want to share their posts and people willing to provide individual help. They could find each other and DM a conversation. Milking a public forum for advice and then vandalizing it by deleting the post is definitely NOT a good solution, and I do not share your sympathy for people who do that. It’s like curtaining off a few back rows of a bus to use all day as an office - although that could have been funny in a Seinfeld episode.
Hadn’t noticed, but wow. I wonder what the motivation is to delete info that would help other people.
I felt the same way when I started messing with Arduino/ESP and 3d printing 8 or 9 years ago. Each was a whole new world of technology to explore that made me feel like I was back in high school or college. Except no exams and no bedtime!
Maybe you can take comfort from the extremely low incidence of laptop battery fires in spite of millions of people leaving them plugged in all the time.