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?

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    I usually replace it with a period to try to make it easier to differentiate from posts that were only an image that didn’t load

      • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        I’m using sync and if an image post doesn’t load i see an error, but if a comment with just an image doesn’t load it just looks like a blank comment. I’ve checked the site a few times and usually the image loads on the site, or if you touch the blank post where an image would be and sometimes that gets it to show up.