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.

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Total per-account upvotes minus downvotes value is tracked for everyone, it is just hidden by choice in Lemmy. Other softwares have other approaches, Piefed has the "attitude" you mentioned. Kbin used to just show the full "karma" value, I'm not sure if Mbin still does. It doesn't appeal to me so I don't keep up with development.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, good point. It's what lemvotes.org depends on.

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago

Never understood why people would care about how did an invite on pseudo anonymous underground forum.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah each platform has their own way to "deal" with the issue. You get a choice. Which is nice :)