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I think RSS is a closer analogy than email, but anyway... it could be argued those rules don't really exist today. Good snaps get stored and shared forever, ev

I think RSS is a closer analogy than email, but anyway... it could be argued those rules don't really exist today. Good snaps get stored and shared forever, everyone knows to screenshot dumb posts on FB, and there are plenty of twitter archival tools. Youtube's DRM and takedowns work OK against film pirates, but it's still easy to find many movies and redistributed personal content online. Though I'd be curious what fraction of those instances are someone speaking without thinking, or accidentally sharing to a broader audience... the former seems PEBKAC and the latter is a solvable UX issue.

skybrian 9y ago
Despite the exceptions and workarounds, the defaults matter for the user experience and social dynamics of an online forum. Even on Hacker News, the various moderation features and things like being able to edit your post after publishing make a difference to how the community works. It's not only what you can get away with but also what people feel like they have a right to do. An interesting proof of concept might be to try to create a forum like Hacker News, but using distributed software.
- losteric 9y ago
  I think those features are compatible with this model - RSS handles edited content just fine (clients can store the old content, but there is a canonical "latest" version).