Post 1544623 by Gileh@niu.moe
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(DIR) Post #1544594 by shug0@masto.raildecake.fr
2018-11-28T01:27:03Z
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@Technowix that's a very interesting point. Maybe after one year we have to download our year of data and after that's it's deleted.
(DIR) Post #1544623 by Gileh@niu.moe
2018-11-28T01:28:13Z
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@Technowix I personally don't need it, but I do believe many of the people here are younger than me, still growing up, and may well say things they come to regret. I don't think those things should be dug up and weaponized against a person who may well have apologized for/renounced them.Somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-5 years before posts get deleted would be fine by me.
(DIR) Post #1544695 by reymarkus@niu.moe
2018-11-28T01:35:00Z
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@Technowix If the auto-delete feature will only be user-triggered, I agree. However, an auto-delete feature for old toots that can only be triggered by the server and the user has no full control whether they can stop the auto-deletion or not, well it's obviously a bad idea for mastodon and the instances that use it.
(DIR) Post #1544733 by crlf@niu.moe
2018-11-28T01:38:05Z
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@Technowix Would it be possible to keep pinned posts from deleting?
(DIR) Post #1545104 by Chuculate@niu.moe
2018-11-28T02:04:43Z
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@Technowix I like that idea. Nothing I post needs to be preserved. If I had an instance I would do it because I don't want to deal with mountains worth of old toots. Still others might need a less transitory experience on their platform :/This is a quirk of #selfhosting, #federation, altruist vs mutualist, and small vs big models of services, isn't it?.. What a tangent I took.Best regards!
(DIR) Post #1545203 by jdkendall@niu.moe
2018-11-28T02:12:18Z
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@Technowix I have no issues, to me Mastodon-style services are meant for transient conversations, hence the short message lengths and simple interfaces for interaction (reply, boost, fav).For those that are against, maybe you can compromise and create some kind of functionality where they can pull an archive their posts in some standard format (JSON or such?)
(DIR) Post #1545485 by drop_table@niu.moe
2018-11-28T02:33:18Z
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@Technowix I used a service like this on twitter and liked it, because I don’t necessarily want my posts to last forever. But it definitely would have to be optional and configurable.
(DIR) Post #1545717 by majachai@niu.moe
2018-11-28T02:51:56Z
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@Technowix yesssssss!!
(DIR) Post #1546132 by rizele@niu.moe
2018-11-28T03:16:00Z
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@Technowix Saved, deleted, or turned into a pumpkin; I don't really care what happens to my old posts.
(DIR) Post #1546375 by jeffcliff@niu.moe
2018-11-28T03:30:40Z
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@Technowix I'd much prefer to have searchable posts than have old thoughts expire...like it broke my heart abit when I learned all my old reddit posts were actually inaccessible. Being able to refer and build on old thoughts can be a powerful thing, though I can see from a sysadmin perspective why you would want to pare the history of them down.
(DIR) Post #1546935 by Juju@calc.news
2018-11-28T04:03:44Z
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@Technowix I'm not on your instance, but that's a pretty interesting idea. Thing is, it's a thing people would love as others (like me) would absolutely hate their history going away, for various reasons. And the Internet have a pretty good memory, anyway. Could definitely be something user-configurable and per-post for say, announcements that expires after a day or something.Anyway, you have something here.
(DIR) Post #1547019 by Azazer@niu.moe
2018-11-28T04:04:19Z
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@TechnowixYeah, I think it's okay. Very pragmatic. I can only imagine that all those toots are eating space, and besides that seems like there are ways to back up toots too if they are that precious to a user. Someone can correct me on that if I'm wrong though.
(DIR) Post #1548481 by leip4Ier@niu.moe
2018-11-28T05:54:58Z
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@Technowix imo it's a very bad thing, i wouldn't like my toots expire, and i suppose (i may be wrong) nearly nobody who registered here thinking of it as of a persistent microblog wouldbut there will appear other instances, which from the beginning state that they're more ephemeral, so those who need it will be happy to register therealso, the google guy who bet the link to his toot would be unavailable in a year wouldn't lose his bet this way :p
(DIR) Post #1548856 by abs@niu.moe
2018-11-28T06:29:33Z
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@Technowix I'd want it to be opt-in (so explicitly setting up that deletion) instead of opt-out.
(DIR) Post #1550130 by dek@niu.moe
2018-11-28T08:09:08Z
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@abs @Technowix storage costs so maybe no
(DIR) Post #1550134 by dek@niu.moe
2018-11-28T08:09:39Z
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@Technowix do it
(DIR) Post #1552887 by eggy@pleroma.site
2018-11-28T05:55:56.003144Z
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@Technowix Start insta-deleting @SarcasmKid 's posts pls
(DIR) Post #1553616 by tibike@niu.moe
2018-11-28T12:23:28Z
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@Technowix I'd very much like it to be configurable and even though I don't have pinned posts those should not be deleted. Also I'd like the option to download the data before it is being deleted
(DIR) Post #1555684 by hellpie@weeaboo.space
2018-11-28T14:18:21.568822Z
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@Technowix here is a better idea: if it's so important set a goddamn timer or if you know you'll regret it, don't do it at all.
(DIR) Post #1555774 by hellpie@weeaboo.space
2018-11-28T14:22:27.462664Z
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@Technowix there is literally no difference, if someone wants to store the post they can, if someone wants to screenshot they can and if a machine wants to cuck you it already can, it's literally a matter of "do I want to post something" or "do I want to feel regret", and I tell you what happens, inbetween you find the people that say "I want to post about feeling regret" and that's the only reason someone should ever need self deleting posts on literally every damn place where more than a single other person might see it.
(DIR) Post #1557169 by Azazer@niu.moe
2018-11-28T15:14:44Z
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@Technowix Yeah it makes sense. Unless you're a big company like a Google or a Facebook monetizing off your user's data it will probably be too expensive to keep all those toots. Sounds like Niu is growing pretty quickly too so there's that as well.