Situation: Someone makes a post asking a question. I spend time answering it. Then the post is deleted.

I can no longer access the post and therefore can not find the author to block them.

What I do have is a link to an empty page.

How do I find the author?

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[–] 3 points 2 days ago*

If I decide I want to remove something, or edit it, or whatever, that should favor me, not preservation of my past activities.

Should, yes. But just FYI; Lemmy does not work that way. Deletion/edit requests are solely up to the instance owners to comply with.

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