0 sats \ 12 replies \ @Eobard 22 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: @ delete posts...not a fan meta
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That's what I do. Content that gets deleted is less valuable.
To me, it feels like you want the benefits of using an identity (collecting sats and being known) but without the responsibility (letting people scrutinize what you say and being responsible for your words). To be clear, I don't mean responsibility in the way a government means, but as in reputation. The good thing of sovereign voluntary identities is that if you screw up you can start over with a new one.
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Unfortunately, SN does not offer a similar feature
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Why should we value something that is going to be auto deleted??? Temporary value doesn't exist in my book. Would I buy a toaster if it's just going to disappear in one week?
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What about renting stuff? Renting something has no value to you?
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Btw, sorry for doubling down on this, but this is quite an important topic for me so I thought more about this and had a funny thought:
Is there even such a thing that is not temporary? Even your life is temporary. Does your life not have value to you? Isn't your life being only temporal what actually gives it value?
I know, I might be nitpicking this argument now:
Temporary value doesn't exist in my book. Would I buy a toaster if it's just going to disappear in one week?
But I think it's important to be precise, especially when we argue against something.
Else we might be talking past each other and then this whole discussion might have minimal value, lol :)
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How could it possibly lose its value?
By being deleted
Stacker News is a public forum, not a dm group among friends. You're making an apples to oranges comparison. Of course posts will lose value if fragments of the discussion are auto deleted. Nothing will make sense to the reader. I don't value that at all.
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To be honest @needcreations_, you sound quite entitled in your arguments against this @delete feature.
You don't own the content of other users. People are here because they want to. If they (or you) want to remove their content, it's theirs to remove.
If SN becomes hostile to some kind of users, they would probably not post at all. And I think that's worse than someone deleting their comments after some time - even if it's just seconds.
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A chat is usually within two people or a certain group through the use of an app. Unlike a public forum as this one, where you don’t even need an account to read. Very different things!
Also in the chat the disappearing configuration is valid for every participant, not only for a few.
Otherwise I would agree with the ephemerality of it’s for everyone, just delete all content after 90 days. Saves space and bandwidth for SN.
Nostr should be doing that too, delete all from everyone after a certain amount of days/months. Let’s get back to real conversations.
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Most messenger apps have an option to automatically delete messages after a certain period of time. Would you stop chatting with your friends just because their messages disappear after a month?
You’re comparing private direct messaging (which often only has value in the moment it was exchanged) to a public forum with a search index?
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