I don’t know if keeping the usernames visible is a good or a bad thing at this point, but it kinda sucks for insecure people who don’t wanna get roasted lol

  • ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    20時間前

    Ah yes.

    I will make sure to tell the fascist police that I’ve learned my lesson when they kick down the door and take me to their secret prison for posting online content supporting minority rights. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of time to foster a culture where it’s normal to be stupid and wrong while they’ve got me locked up.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      19時間前

      … you don’t get it.

      If you made a post, on lemmy, and then deleted it?

      … you didn’t actually delete it.

      Somebody already archived it. Some three letter organization, probably many of them, and they often talk to each other.

      An undelete instance would just make that more obvious to more people.

      If you’re worried about persecution due to being a minority or supporting them… you need to actually learn how to secure your online communications, you need to figure out how to effectively seperate your real identity from your online one.

      Lemmy is public.

      Anyone can archive the entire thing, at any time. If you are worried about the fascists, as you should be, you need to learn actual security and privacy practices.

      … the internet is forever.

      The doorkickers aren’t going to care that you ‘deleted’ your post after they already made a copy of it.

      • ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        16時間前

        I get it just fine.

        I post on Lemmy because I wish to take a brief moment to communicate with other people about a specific subject. I don’t do it because I wish to take part in the construction of an online archive of everything that anyone has ever said that can be easily scanned to profile people, harass them, and for other such fun anti-social uses of technology.

        I know perfectly well I cannot prevent anyone from doing that. I can, however, make it slightly harder to do. And I choose to do so because I can.

        What you have done is create a moral justification for surveillance capitalism. Zuckerberg would be so proud.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          16時間前

          … No, I haven’t.

          i’ve described reality as it is.

          I’ve also said that in general, people should be allowed to publically make mistakes and publically learn and grow from them.

          If you want lemmy to … actually support truly deletable posts and comments? And also be public facing?

          Go redesign it then.

          You are ignorant of how the actual mechanisms at play here work, and you’ve decided that me describing them to you is somehow a moral defense of surveillance capitalism.

          You can’t have something that is totally public yet is also truly totally redactable at the same time.

          You’re just mad that you don’t understand how software works, and lashing out wildly.

          I don’t do it because I wish to take part in the construction of an online archive of everything that anyone has ever said that can be easily scanned to profile people, harass them, and for other such fun anti-social uses of technology.

          Then stop communicating on any public facing communications platform.

          What you said there applies to all of them.