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?

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    8 days ago

    The procedure I use for posting from Mbin is:

    • Try to just attach direct from the source with ![](https://whatever)
    • If that doesn’t work, attach the image to the message and save
    • And then edit the message and insert the self hosted image using that same markdown

    Thus it’ll show on both mbin and Lemmy.