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@moshpirit I do not agree. There's a problem when federating _and_ wanting the "private" ilusion. @echosa @thomask @zoowar
- mmn and clacke repeated this.
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@drymer @zoowar @moshpirit @echosa @thomask I regard !gnusocial as being purely for public communications. If you want privacy use #Hubzilla
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@bob @thomask @zoowar @drymer @moshpirit This whole conversation (which is more than just this single thread) has been very enlightening and is a good conversation to have about !gnusocial. For those used to Twitter, these little caveats can be huge, or, at the very least, confusing. Privacy is a hot topic right now, as it should be.
I did a little Google Sleuthing with my username, and I found examples of my GNU Social posts on other servers. I assume that's because of how GS federation works. This is a concern to me, though. If I close my GS account and delete my content on the server I signed up on, will my content remain on the other servers, or does the deletion propagate throughout the federation? If deleting my account, or even deleting a single post, doesn't propagate through the entire system, then I don't fully own or control my own content. That's not good. Of course, I could be mistaken, so can someone either confirm or correct my statements?
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@echosa @bob @thomask @zoowar @drymer @moshpirit I'll make one comment and then withdraw. Though I believe federated deletion is implemented in newer #GS instances, you have no assurance that all other instances run that code unaltered. Nor can we be sure that each instance is GS and not #friendica or #rstatus or #hubzilla / #redmatrix (each with its own deletion policies) or an older GS or SN that lacks that capability.
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@echosa @lnxw48 @cmhobbs @clacke @drymer @bob @mmn @zoowar @moshpirit @thomask Up-to-date GS instances support federated single-notice deletion. Note that anyone can modify their instance so it doesn't comply though. I haven't checked, but I don't think deleting the account will send 'deletion' pings to remote instances. In that case, your notices would not get deleted on remote instances even if they're up-to-date and 'obey' single-notice deletion requests. Personally, I consider everything I post here as public and archived for eternity. Not only by other GS instances, but any other crawler (e.g.: Google, etc).
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@echosa @drymer @zoowar @bob @moshpirit @thomask "I don't fully own [...] my own content." You don't, once it's on Other People's Computers.