Today's Thinkings: I've been used to deleting all my posts on other platforms after some time, so it's pretty weird to me that I can't do that here (I can request it but can't do it myself). I like being able to remove posts that no longer resonate with me. Does that bug anybody else?
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I like that perspective
It’s more a slow death… posts don’t delete but they do rely on someone actually hosting them somewhere, so if that doesn’t happen, the post disappears, at least this is my understanding. Happy to be corrected if I misunderstood.
That's my understanding too. They'll eventually disappear.
I guess we’ll find out in 10 years when someone digs up a bunch of old posts…
Technically on traditional social media you’re still requesting it to be deleted, you’re trusting them to actually delete it and not just hide it from view.
If you’re worried about it too much then you could always post to your own relay and that relay alone, then you would have full control over the content on that’s posted.
But that doesn’t mean someone can’t import it from your relay. Similar to how people can screenshot on Facebook and save it forever. There really is no escape to the foreverness of something posted online that needs redacted later.
I think there is a relay out there that only archives and keeps posts that people ask to be deleted. Can't remember where I heard this, but it makes sense.
I did see a bot like that once, posting deleted comments. However, ultimately someone needs to maintain that, probably quite easy right now but if we get a lot of users at some point that will become increasingly expensive.
YES agreed! Sometime you just make a horrible post as well. You should be able to delete your post more efficiently/ effectively.
There will always be people who refuse kind 5s
Nothing's ever deleted from the Internet.
Ask Blippie, and his homie 😂
85% of my posts 😑🙄😂
We are a work in progress... 🫂🫶
you can delete if you selfhost
True, but my point is that it can be done. And sending a delete may actually increase chances that your note gets kept long term 🤣
i stand by 100% of my cringe
:3
Yep, when I saw that bot I stopped deleting stuff.
I delete or edit just when it makes sense for human readers. No point in trying to appease our government or ai overlords. They will greedily see deletes as additional signal.
Edit?!? What is this wizardry?
you may hardly have decentralisation and control over things, you are not yourself. Internet may never forgets, if something was public.
In case you are not just pulling my leg, Amethyst has an edit option. Which I guess is just a "request to replace" a note. Which is really the same as a delete.
No was serious, I’ve never used Amethyst as g09gle can’t built a phone robust enough not to break (had two Graphene enabled pixels break on me).
The same way an npub is allowed to post notes by signing them, same way it should work for them to sign a request to delete them instantly.
Does anyone with knowledge know why this isn’t technically possible yet?
