We seriously need to talk about deletion not being real

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We seriously need to talk about deletion not being real in the fedi.

Some instances never erase your toots when you delete them.

#mastodon #activitypub

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@maikel@vmst.io what is there to talk about? ActivityPub is a decentralized and distributed protocol. Deletion is best effort and while the ideal use case would be instant deletion of your own content, everywhere, on demand, it's just not feasible.

I sympathize, I really do, I just don't have any answers.

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Have you looked into the work @cwebber and the Spritely team have been doing on using Object Capabilities to limit what can be done with posts on remote servers?