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Memorializing life online is the reason people get fired for saying homophobic stuff at a time when even most left wing politicians were anti gay marriage (>= 8

by DC1350 6y ago

Memorializing life online is the reason people get fired for saying homophobic stuff at a time when even most left wing politicians were anti gay marriage (>= 8 years ago). I don’t want this. I would use social media a lot more if everything was deleted after 24 hours because I can’t tell the future and I don’t know what will be taboo in 5 years

slindz 6y ago
That is a fascinating insight to me. (the temporary social media thing) Does such a thing exist? I'm sitting here fighting urges to build a prototype.
- seany 6y ago
  Most of the chan boards do this.
  - livueta 6y ago
    It's also worth noting that many of the chan boards are also publicly archived, though the effect of that is mitigated by no/ephemeral identities.
- reidjs 6y ago
  Yes, snapchat and instagram stories are examples of temporary social media products
- andrewzah 6y ago
  You could do this on pretty much any site, given access to javascript. I remember doing this for facebook before I deleted my account ~6 years ago. There are people on mastodon/pleroma who have scripts that automatically do that for posts older than 30 days, etc. Snapchat and instagram stories are ephemeral, but those are different from traditional social media with posts.
aaroninsf 6y ago
Politics aside, Telepath is premised on post ephemerality and AFAICT also does not allow text cut and paste. No stopping screen shots etc but ftr. * that there is no stopping screen shots etc. is arguably the real topic; until such time as there is true revolt, surveillance capital renders inert any idea of personal invisibility, opting out, or avoidance of future accountability for contemporary actions, as you suggest. As well known in this forum, there is no escape, not using incognito mode, not using TOR, not opting out of the sociopathic Facebook ecosystem which happily profiles you based on tagging and public data... we live in the panopticon. Those of us who are not stainless steel rats should moderate our expectations accordingly. :|

by DC1350 6y ago

slindz 6y ago

That is a fascinating insight to me. (the temporary social media thing) Does such a thing exist? I'm sitting here fighting urges to build a prototype.

seany 6y ago
Most of the chan boards do this.
- livueta 6y ago
  It's also worth noting that many of the chan boards are also publicly archived, though the effect of that is mitigated by no/ephemeral identities.
reidjs 6y ago
Yes, snapchat and instagram stories are examples of temporary social media products
andrewzah 6y ago
You could do this on pretty much any site, given access to javascript. I remember doing this for facebook before I deleted my account ~6 years ago. There are people on mastodon/pleroma who have scripts that automatically do that for posts older than 30 days, etc. Snapchat and instagram stories are ephemeral, but those are different from traditional social media with posts.

aaroninsf 6y ago

Politics aside, Telepath is premised on post ephemerality and AFAICT also does not allow text cut and paste. No stopping screen shots etc but ftr. * that there is no stopping screen shots etc. is arguably the real topic; until such time as there is true revolt, surveillance capital renders inert any idea of personal invisibility, opting out, or avoidance of future accountability for contemporary actions, as you suggest. As well known in this forum, there is no escape, not using incognito mode, not using TOR, not opting out of the sociopathic Facebook ecosystem which happily profiles you based on tagging and public data... we live in the panopticon. Those of us who are not stainless steel rats should moderate our expectations accordingly. :|