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What are some solutions to posting something that you later regret? Pretty much nothing is my guess since it's like sending an email and regretting it later. D
by fareesh 8y ago
What are some solutions to posting something that you later regret? Pretty much nothing is my guess since it's like sending an email and regretting it later.
Does the sync allow for deletion too?
- AndrewSChapman 8y agoIt sounds a lot like a blockchain: "Your log is immutable and message order is preserved - every message+previous_hash is signed" which means no deletions, ever.
- fenwick67 8y agoYou can append a "delete" message and the clients won't display it going forward. The data is still there though.
- ChristianBundy 8y agoThere are solutions to this (check the #offchain-content channel) in the works, but currently it's true: anything you post will continue to be replicated by your friends.
- ahdinosaur 8y agohi fareesh, as with real-life, you can't take back what you said, you can only apologize (in a new post). :) there's talk of moving message content out of the sigchain so you could "delete" (ask your peers to delete) a post: %QJEpN8LN1t3BrIkUQ3WoOMWRsMArbVUZCpTeBYcuqfw=.sha256
- _kwmj 8y agoTo be fair to real life there's a reasonable chance of forgetting :)
- marknadal 8y agoAs far as I know, only (disclaimer: mine) GUN supports mutable (which enables deleting or changing data) updates in a P2P/decentralized network. Other systems all use some variant of immutable data structures (hashes, append-only logs, DAGs, etc.) vs CRDTs which can do immutable OR mutable data.