I was thinking about this recently… By going to a federated system, one that essentially copies all of your content from one instance to another, when you delete a comment, does that comment get deleted on every instance? Is that even possible?

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I disagree. It is not an internet problem, it is a result of the fundamental properties of data that we couldn’t change if we wanted to.

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      1 year ago

      This is astute and correct, it’s not necessarily even an internet problem as much of a “this is simply how data and transferring data works” problem.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, this is essentially the Analog Loophole. If you show something to someone it is effectively impossible to stop them from taking a copy.

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        1 year ago

        I used this loophole in the early 2000’s when I tricked my PC into thinking my VCR was a second monitor connected by S-video. I didn’t have enough storage space for all those episodes of Sealab 2021 and Aqua Teen Hunger Force I was pirating, so I recorded them to VHS to save costly data storage space.

        I still have those tapes squirreled away somewhere.