It’s more a slow death… posts don’t delete but they do rely on someone actually hosting them somewhere, so if that doesn’t happen, the post disappears, at least this is my understanding. Happy to be corrected if I misunderstood.
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That's my understanding too. They'll eventually disappear.
I guess we’ll find out in 10 years when someone digs up a bunch of old posts…
It happens that way, yes! They dissappear in the void. But you have the gallery where you can save and you can you personalized hastags.... I manage to get some old notes this way.
I think there is a relay out there that only archives and keeps posts that people ask to be deleted. Can't remember where I heard this, but it makes sense.
I did see a bot like that once, posting deleted comments. However, ultimately someone needs to maintain that, probably quite easy right now but if we get a lot of users at some point that will become increasingly expensive.
True, but my point is that it can be done. And sending a delete may actually increase chances that your note gets kept long term 🤣
Yep, when I saw that bot I stopped deleting stuff.
I delete or edit just when it makes sense for human readers. No point in trying to appease our government or ai overlords. They will greedily see deletes as additional signal.
Edit?!? What is this wizardry?
In case you are not just pulling my leg, Amethyst has an edit option. Which I guess is just a "request to replace" a note. Which is really the same as a delete.
No was serious, I’ve never used Amethyst as g09gle can’t built a phone robust enough not to break (had two Graphene enabled pixels break on me).