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> hopefully one day evolving "from cut-and-paste to a personal blockchain of context-permissioned, addressable, searchable, interlinked clips" No thanks. "Pers

> hopefully one day evolving "from cut-and-paste to a personal blockchain of context-permissioned, addressable, searchable, interlinked clips" No thanks. "Personal" and "Blockchain" don't belong in the same idea. I want to be able to delete my things. And I don't want to have to run (or pay to run) nodes to do...whatever it is that proof of stake needs to avoid a 51% attack on my "personal Blockchain". And before someone says it, no, I don't want anything I do stored immutably on Ethereum or any other chain. Keep crypto away from my social.

gdulli 4y ago
You're commenting on one of the few sites on the internet that doesn't give you the freedom to delete your own content. It's the main reason I don't take my participation here very seriously and can only treat it as anonymous throwaway content.
- bastawhiz 4y ago
  And because of that, I mind my words. I don't reveal a ton about myself. A permanent record of every social interaction in my life is both a huge privacy risk (an advertiser's dream!) and completely unnecessary. I don't want to censor myself when talking with my closest friends because I'm worried about everything I say and have ever said becoming irrevocably part of the public record. I want to choose a technology where that isn't the default.
  - bookofjoe 4y ago
    One great thing about being old (75 in June) is that you don't care at all about privacy/public record/what's deletable or not...
    - spicybright 4y ago
      Not everyone is in a safe situation to not care what's public. Being LGBT can be unsafe in many parts of the world and can have serious consequences if made public, like losing housing or facing violence.
      - bookofjoe 4y ago
        I understand. My comment was solely about the joy of being a geezer.
- bookofjoe 4y ago
  Not entirely true: you can edit/delete your posts and comments for a while (I don't know the exact length of time) after you post them.
  - gdulli 4y ago
    Yes and you can technically also email an admin to request manual deletion of comments, but neither is that in the spirit of having the level of control over your own provided content that you'd expect anywhere else.
    - bookofjoe 4y ago
      fair enough
quadrifoliate 4y ago
I wonder if substituting blockchain with "standardized way of referencing a personal database" would solve most of your gripes. I do feel the annoyance of people trying to shoehorn "crypto" terminology into personal stuff, but I think there's probably a reasonable non-cryptobullshit way (like WebMentions, which are used on the author's site) to get what the author actually wants, which is a way for me to control the data I want to make available to the wider internet, and to delete them and leave gaps when I chose to do so.
3np 4y ago
Speaking of Ethereum, related: Ethereum is a Dark Forest (2020): https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest

gdulli 4y ago

You're commenting on one of the few sites on the internet that doesn't give you the freedom to delete your own content. It's the main reason I don't take my participation here very seriously and can only treat it as anonymous throwaway content.

bastawhiz 4y ago
And because of that, I mind my words. I don't reveal a ton about myself. A permanent record of every social interaction in my life is both a huge privacy risk (an advertiser's dream!) and completely unnecessary. I don't want to censor myself when talking with my closest friends because I'm worried about everything I say and have ever said becoming irrevocably part of the public record. I want to choose a technology where that isn't the default.
- bookofjoe 4y ago
  One great thing about being old (75 in June) is that you don't care at all about privacy/public record/what's deletable or not...
  - spicybright 4y ago
    Not everyone is in a safe situation to not care what's public. Being LGBT can be unsafe in many parts of the world and can have serious consequences if made public, like losing housing or facing violence.
    - bookofjoe 4y ago
      I understand. My comment was solely about the joy of being a geezer.
bookofjoe 4y ago
Not entirely true: you can edit/delete your posts and comments for a while (I don't know the exact length of time) after you post them.
- gdulli 4y ago
  Yes and you can technically also email an admin to request manual deletion of comments, but neither is that in the spirit of having the level of control over your own provided content that you'd expect anywhere else.
  - bookofjoe 4y ago
    fair enough

quadrifoliate 4y ago

I wonder if substituting blockchain with "standardized way of referencing a personal database" would solve most of your gripes. I do feel the annoyance of people trying to shoehorn "crypto" terminology into personal stuff, but I think there's probably a reasonable non-cryptobullshit way (like WebMentions, which are used on the author's site) to get what the author actually wants, which is a way for me to control the data I want to make available to the wider internet, and to delete them and leave gaps when I chose to do so.

3np 4y ago

Speaking of Ethereum, related: Ethereum is a Dark Forest (2020): https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest