Nostr Web Client

These people are literally crazy.

When you post on the Fediverse, your server sends your post to other servers. That is how the Fediverse works. It's the very nature of it.

They are posting on the Fediverse. Then their server is sending their posts to my bridge. My bridge acts just like a regular Fediverse server, supporting deletion requests etc.

Do they want to sue the entire Fediverse for "unauthorized" copying? Literally every server on Mastodon is doing this. I am not doing anything abnormal from other servers.

They want me to hang because they are using a technology that is working exactly the way it was designed to work.

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Enki 1y ago

holy crap these people are actually insane.

jb55 1y ago

*posts to the fediverse via a protocol that is designed to federate posts to many servers*

ynniv 1y ago

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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

jb55 1y ago

This has always been my point about deletion, which is why i’m glad we renamed it to “deletion request”

At the protocol level

ynniv 1y ago

And it's no different with popular centralized services. The only real difference is that nostr is honest.

ynniv 1y ago

I might go a step further and call them "retractions"

ImaginaryEvent 1y ago

I like that. This is perfect naming.

Monkey Pox Denier 1y ago

Should be "edit request".

Deleting is just a soecial case of edit

(think rwx style)

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.

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.