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.
I had some posts get downvoted for some stupid reason. So I just deleted them.
I thought my posts were well thought out nuanced takes on the current topic. But anyway. I’ll delete any post that gets downvoting for some unknown(to me) reason.
Including this one.
Is because you are molded and shaped by the community, so you don’t want anything that is against it left online.