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?

      • Chozo
        0•5 months ago

        For some reason, attachments to comments posted from Kbin/Mbin don’t seem to appear for Lemmy users.

        • AndrewEnglish
          0•5 months ago

          'Bin follows the same format as Mastodon for inline images, which is different from Lemmy.
          Mastodon puts the details for an inline image inside an ‘attachment’ field, with nothing in the ‘content’ fields, whereas Lemmy doesn’t use an ‘attachment’ field at all for them, and includes the HTML for img src in the content.
          It’s always been the case that Mastodon didn’t show images from Lemmy comments. I don’t know if the reverse is a new thing or if it’s always been like that.

          • mozz
            0•5 months ago

            Isn’t ActivityPub a wonderful protocol

          • e-five
            0•5 months ago

            I don’t know if the reverse is a new thing or if it’s always been like that.

            Here’s a comment in a lemmy issue describing mastodon images not appearing in lemmy from last year. Since the issue was closed three days after 0.19.3 released I had expected it to work in the next version 0.19.4, but it appears that was not the case.

            Edit: While I’m here, I noticed piefed also doesn’t support it, so was considering opening an issue to support attachments, but I imagine there wouldn’t be much desire to do so until mastodon integration is more of a real thing? though I think other software does it, like Plemora/Akkoma/Iceshrimp, I didn’t check but did see the code for it being discussed for plemora at least

            • AndrewEnglish
              0•5 months ago

              Re: your edit - please feel free to open an Issue for PieFed about it. It’s MBIN content in Lemmy’s communities, so it’s something that needs attention (we should show it, even if Lemmy doesn’t). I’ll have a crack at fixing it next time I’m working on the code.

    • mozz
      0•5 months 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.