It’s interesting that all the replies (so far) are to you, rather than OP, because the behaviour of Lemmy is more interesting than just answering ‘No’ about their original query. So you could nuke everything in this post if your wanted to.

The ‘obvious trade-off’ part doesn’t acknowledge how much of social media engagement is driven by the urge to correct someone. So I think it’s something to be mindful of: if you say something wrong, and someone corrects you, then your choices should be: leave it be; strikethrough your text; or edit it to literally say “[removed]”, which are all better options than deleting it.

To give an example - from when I commented on an eerie Terrible Real Estate Photo with a oddly-placed chair in it:

The replies to me - that it’s an optical illusion, and that the sockets are part of building regs, have value on their own, and shouldn’t disappear just because I might get embarrassed by my comment.