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Ben Goggin · 149w
Is there a philosophy behind that? Given current cultural dynamics, I think it would not be great at scale — I think most people when faced with an online mob would want the ability to delete a dum...
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The primary philosophy is the decentralized nature of the protocol itself, IMO. Once you post something, several hundred copies of it exist on relays worldwide, making full deletion a near impossible task.

It does seem to have some interesting side effects, though. What we’ve observed anecdotally here over the past few months is that people tend to post more responsibly given that they have no place to hide.
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Ben Goggin · 149w
It does seem like clients could be designed to facilitate a pseudo deletion though, basically just hiding the post, which I think would make a lot of sense.
The Daniel 🖖 · 149w
It’s twofold. First, what #[5]​ said, and I’ve said in the past: No delete means taking personal responsibility for your public persona. It’s a good way to deter influencers, scammers, and racists from using it because they can’t go back and purge their timelines. Second, since we all ...