Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.
If your post has replies, “deleting” a comment should just remove your name from the post. Not just the replies remain, but the original comment too
For that matter, let each comment have an edit history so we can see what you’ve changed. Usually it’ll just be a spelling/formatting mistake, but the people deserve to know!
The Right to Erasure would like a word with you there.