why do you people delete your posts?

Sometimes I’ll downvote myself if that seems to be the popular consensus. Who am I to disagree?

That's the spirit!

Same. Had to delete a mistaken cross post but that’s about it here.

On other sites though, it’s because corpo media can suck it.

Same reason. It just sucks when you accidentally do a duplicate post, delete the duplicate, and it still shows up for some because of federation. Like I deleted one and it was still showing up on Piefed.