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Not crazy, entitled. It's similar to people obsessed with nostr deletion: the core of the protocol is literally that you can verify someone said something, and they insist that they be able to take it back. What does that even mean? Are we required to hack into every location that has the message, and blank it out? If you've been offline for a year and still have the deleted message in your client cache, are you breaking the law? Once you have provably said something, you can't stop people from knowing that you said it. Sure, nice clients and relays can respect your deletion request, but are those really the ones you're worried about? At some point there will be relays that retain normal messages for 30 days, but deleted ones forever... because that's easy. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Alex Gleason 1y ago

The crazy thing is I am processing deletion requests already and that's not enough for them! They want to force me to do it manually.

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ynniv 1y ago

The best you can do is to recognize that their argument is an emotional one and make a personal decision about whether it's worth dealing with. If there was something actually consequential, groups like the EFF are there to help.

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