I wish we could actually migrate our accounts with all of our data…

Not all of us. Just a few actually. But not playing fair will always give them an advantage.

I wished this thread would have continued. Very interesting debate.

Nahh it doesn’t make a difference.

Glad to hear I’m not the only one who thinks a comment without replies could be deleted entirely with no harm done… 😄

I see. I hope I’ll have more time to research how ActivityPub and Fediverse work. I’m sure people much smarter than me spent a lot more time thinking about these things than I have…😅

Well it would prevent others from getting to know your address, preventing harm. Transparency is good, but I’m just afraid that immutable transparency easily be exploited by ill-minded people.

There’s a similar debate in blockchain, where people have put CSAM into the Bitcoin blockchain where it will be forever stored.

I guess it’s the old debate of freedom vs security.

Yes, if I need to choose between the graffiti and the sandblasted outline of it, I’d also pick the graffiti. But if I could power wash the graffiti and make it non-conceivable, I’d prefer that.

Hmm, but why does a social media need to be an immutable storage? I feel like I’m missing something here.

I know some people are against any form of censorship and yes, I see the problem with the question of who can decide what gets deleted when. I’m totally on board here. But is “nothing should ever be deleted” really the best approach?

Genuine question: if someone doxes your address on Lemmy, wouldn’t you want to be able to get it deleted?

What’s the harm if I post “test” under a post without comments and then delete this comment one second later, without anyone having engaged with it?

Makes sense, thanks for explaining! I don’t know much about ActivityPub, but you explained this point well. Also good to know that upvotes and downvotes are public… 😄

Yeah, well… Better not think about that too much 😂

I don’t wanna go back to Reddit. I know what you mean when you say “nothing is ever truly deleted”, but there is a difference between a comment being displayed as “deleted by creator” and the comment not being displayed at all while still existing under the hood.

True. But the fact that a removed comment in a post is displayed as “deleted by creator” is a choice of the Fediverse protocol, isn’t it?

Yeah I totally get that. But what about comments I make on a thread that noone has replied to. Completely deleting those wouldn’t harm anyone.

Fair point, I guess. Also a bit scary. I sometimes read what I used to post on Facebook when I was 12 or 13 years old… 🤣

I can understand it if the comment is part of a thread. But I think comments without replies should be fully deletable.

Everyone, thank you so much for your helpful comments… ❤️ I have learned a lot these two days.

I looked at rsync and borg, and I have ended up using Pika as a GUI for Borg. I am now backing up my data with Pika to two external hard disks over SSH. Both of these external hard disks are encrypted with Pika/Borg. What a wonderful tool!

Wow, I just used this tutorial. rsync is amazing, and this actually makes everything so much easier. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

The only reason is that I am a noob 😄 Thanks, I will take at look at this!