> The argument of a "more honest internet" is a cope.
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> The argument of a "more honest internet" is a cope.
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I agree that people who say "more honest internet" are usually trying to make a virtue of necessity; but its not entirely untrue.
Re-writing one's posts to make replies look off-target / ridiculous was a common enough forum tactic in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Forums would often set posts immutable after a few minutes to limit this.
On balance I think clients and relays should honour deletion requests, but self-doxxing and foot-gunning will remain major risks whatever we do.
"The bad people" can easily store everyone / everything of interest to them and ignore deletion requests.
Clients like forums can put a comment 'this reply was made before the original post was edited' so not really an issue.