That's true.
But, everyone should be working from the assumption that whatever they put on the internet is there forever anyway.
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That's true.
But, everyone should be working from the assumption that whatever they put on the internet is there forever anyway.
Everyone should also know that anything on the internet can completely disappear at any time without warning
And people are trying to remove their Reddit history now.
I think the streamlined version of what you're saying is: don't say stupid shit
(That's actually a good rule of thumb for irl too)
But stupid shit is all I know!
Don't post anything to the internet that you don't want to exist forever.
Could you please add a "Why YSK:" as stated in rule #2? Thank you!
Can't you edit those comments?
I think after recent example of beehaw defederation it's possible that after instance defederates you lose control over your comments as they don't synchronise anymore.
Yeah it seems like this only applies after defederation but idk
Yes you should be able to edit the comments. But those edited comments will remain in those other servers. Also if you make a ton of comments do you really want to edit them all?
I guess you could automate it.
Will I always be talking rubbish? 🤷
There are issues like this. And Lemmy doesn't seem to delete cached content after some time. So text content takes something like 25gB just after 1 month on my instance. And it's not because of what we post, but just because of cached posts from communities on other instances.
So there should be an enhancement on this with the ability to delete automatically cached content after some time.