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?
hmmmm ive seen image-only comments viewed like this on lemmy when sent from non-lemmy platforms
i can see it from fedia.io (mbin)
that’s empty.
Empty on Thunder.
Empty here too.
Empty for me on Jerboa
Empty when viewing from Voyager
Empty on Sync.
This comment does not show an image when viewed on lemmy.world. The image is also missing viewed on lemm.ee. The original Mastodon post does have an image.
curiously, i can see images in both the lemmy.world and lemm.ee post links you included in your comment (as well as the image from the og mastodon post). the originals must have been posted from kbin or mbin instances since i’m using fedia.io which is an mbin instance