I was just thinking about this, when I'm facing an issue, the first thing I do is go to a search engine and usually there's a Reddit post. But I don't want to ask there. And the only way we're going to build up the info for folks to find us and come here is for us to just start asking here. On the Fediverse. We need to build up that mountain of knowledge that Reddit has and will always have. So we should be championing ANYONE asking questions here. Even if we think it's obvious and we think you can just Google it. There was a time where you literally couldn't just Google it. That was built over time. We need to build that here. So start asking your questions here! Find the answers and then post your answer to your own question. Or let someone do it for you. We need to build the knowledge here to be found. It's not just about people looking for alternatives. We need our knowledge to be more valuable than their knowledge.

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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago (9 children)

There is one worry I have about Lemmy being the knowledge of anything and it’s what happened on reddit. Many people went through and nuked their comments, essentially making many posts useless. There are already people here on lemmy that delete their profiles, comments and start over every few months. Not really sure what that means for all the federation, but I assume different instances may have different versions of deleted information in the long run?

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago

You can't stop people changing their mind about deleting stuff. That can and should happen for any number of reasons, both good and bad. There are servers that would still have the information, but it feels like there's less incentive to fully delete an account on the Fediverse as you can literally pick up the same conversation with a new account. Maybe I just don't do enough social media use and miss the point. I deleted my stuff from Reddit, because I don't want to help Reddit and it should be my private data. Fediverse we are all public and there is no tracking anyway. So whoever you are here, you're it here, no where else, even with the same name.

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