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What's the reason for the empty comments, lately? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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