- "I'd like to be able to delete my posts/"
- "Noooo that would be wrong and our append-only social platform is morally superior and btw here is a two-page philosophical treatise on saying things without taking it back."
Where do I know this type of behavior from again...?
I thought the same exact thing 🤔
Oh wait, I think deletion is a mistake. Are there many others too?
For me it's more about preventing revisionist history. Ever try following a thread where someone went back and edited or deleted responses? I've seen stuff like that entirely change the context to something that it originally wasn't.
There is a security in having some statements set in stone.
once the cat is out of the bag you can't put it back in
i personally like the diffs and checkpoints model where an event has a tree of edits and anyone running relays can see all of them but clients mostly don't show the old versions
but it's just an interface thing it's impossible to get away from the fact that once you send a message it's out there
