The mindset is that the services should forget, but if I want persistence it is up to me to remember. I have to same sort of archive of 20 years or so of comput

The mindset is that the services should forget, but if I want persistence it is up to me to remember. I have to same sort of archive of 20 years or so of computing but it's mine and not in custodianship by someone else and that's the distinction. Just because some random web service has a breach it doesn't mean that messages/thoughts/dreams/jokes I sent someone in confidence should be exposed to the world unless I permit it. It's closer to wanting to be able to archive every letter you receive in the post, not the post office keeping every letter and you having to rely on them for the safety of your messages. A lot of these services also keep changing the rules of inclusion to a community over time, where things were private they are now not private or people just need to restart and get going again in a new social group.