📊 Fediverse Awareness Check:
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Fediverse Awareness Check:When you hit send on a post, your app sends copies of that post to be stored on over 40,000 connected servers (hard drives) around the world.
When you delete a post, it sends a request to those servers to delete their copy, but it can't always be guaranteed and your post may remain visible online.
Are you aware of this?
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Fediverse Awareness Check:
When you hit send on a post, your app sends copies of that post to be stored on over 40,000 connected servers (hard drives) around the world.
When you delete a post, it sends a request to those servers to delete their copy, but it can't always be guaranteed and your post may remain visible online.
Are you aware of this?
Some additional reading:
How do I delete a post? https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-delete-a-post-on-mastodon/
Who can see my posts and replies? https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon/
Fediverse never Forgets https://berk.es/2022/12/23/fediverse-never-forgets/
Provide a mechanism for acknowledgements of Delete activities https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/406
Improve UI/UX copy for "Automated Post Deletion" to clarify data persistence https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/37955
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Some additional reading:
How do I delete a post? https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-delete-a-post-on-mastodon/
Who can see my posts and replies? https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon/
Fediverse never Forgets https://berk.es/2022/12/23/fediverse-never-forgets/
Provide a mechanism for acknowledgements of Delete activities https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/406
Improve UI/UX copy for "Automated Post Deletion" to clarify data persistence https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/37955
Why "Delete" is complicated in the #Fediverse
Unlike X or Facebook where one company owns the only copy of your post, Mastodon and other Social Web apps use the #ActivityPub protocol.
When you post, your server (e.g. toot.wales) sends a copy to some number of servers (e.g. mastodon.social) - anywhere from one to 40,000 depending on a bunch of stuff.
When you delete, your server sends a Delete request to all those same servers.
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Why "Delete" is complicated in the #Fediverse
Unlike X or Facebook where one company owns the only copy of your post, Mastodon and other Social Web apps use the #ActivityPub protocol.
When you post, your server (e.g. toot.wales) sends a copy to some number of servers (e.g. mastodon.social) - anywhere from one to 40,000 depending on a bunch of stuff.
When you delete, your server sends a Delete request to all those same servers.
However, your server can't force the other 40,000 servers to actually erase the data.
Most servers honour the request instantly, but if a server is offline, over-capacity, or malicious, that copy may stay on their hard drive, and visible online, indefinitely.
In the decentralised world of the Social Web, "Delete" is a request, not a command.
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Fediverse Awareness Check:
When you hit send on a post, your app sends copies of that post to be stored on over 40,000 connected servers (hard drives) around the world.
When you delete a post, it sends a request to those servers to delete their copy, but it can't always be guaranteed and your post may remain visible online.
Are you aware of this?
@jaz I confess that I’ve never thought about it. Makes sense.
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