That might be fair. Maybe I just happened to see it due to what I was reading. I'm not here to call out people using it. I just know that sometimes things catch on and people copy others without thinking it through.

First I wanted to see if I was missing something. I was. Second I wanted to see if others saw some negative side effects to this. They do.

In the end, it doesn't matter if I think people using this feature are overdoing it. But SN is very valuable to me and I want to see it flourish. I don't want a future where posts are full of deleted comments.

I also don't want those more novice with privacy to think that this "disappearing" comment thing is some shield of protecting. My view on security is that one should consider everything they post online as alive forever. Anyone could be archiving it without your knowledge. False security is dangerous. By using SN you are trusting those that run the service. In the end it very hard to use the web in a trustless fashion. Its not impossible but pretty close. If you really want more anonymity online you need to use a nym and maybe not even post certain things because you could compromise the the nym.

I hope this all makes sense. I'm not saying this feature should go away. I'm not saying people are dumb for using it. I'm just asking why and asking people to think about why they are doing it and the tradeoffs.