I can see why they’d do that tbh. Being able to delete something posted in error is something that may not be guaranteed in the Fediverse. Once it’s out there, you’re relying on others to delete that cute picture of your cat with your shrivelled up little winkie clearly visible in the reflection of your TV.
It might just be the cynic in me but let’s be honest my cynical side is right %99.999… of the time and the rest of me is a vestigial organ held on by foolish optimism buuuuut I feel it’s to get all the benefits without giving back, the vast majority of all traction on a post is in the first few minutes and you cant comment on a post in real time unless you join their proprietary walled garden, it’s like free advertising, see a post you like in the fediverse? Oh no it’s already old and people have already made the top comments I guess I have to go to their app.
So do most of mine. Makes maintaining data integrity a lot simpler and it’s how my database replication tools work.
GDPR was the only time I bothered to delete the data, and even then it was me setting the content of the records to “Information removed due to GDPR”.
Being able to undelete data is a powerful customer service tool, and when Grandma’s Facebook account gets hacked (because her password is one of her grandkid’s names), and all the photos get nuked (and being grandma, Facebook is their photo backup solution), they’re probably going to want that all that restoring again.
But then if data privacy was important to you, you wouldn’t have put it on Threads.
I can see why they’d do that tbh. Being able to delete something posted in error is something that may not be guaranteed in the Fediverse. Once it’s out there, you’re relying on others to delete that cute picture of your cat with your shrivelled up little winkie clearly visible in the reflection of your TV.
It might just be the cynic in me but let’s be honest my cynical side is right %99.999… of the time and the rest of me is a vestigial organ held on by foolish optimism buuuuut I feel it’s to get all the benefits without giving back, the vast majority of all traction on a post is in the first few minutes and you cant comment on a post in real time unless you join their proprietary walled garden, it’s like free advertising, see a post you like in the fediverse? Oh no it’s already old and people have already made the top comments I guess I have to go to their app.
Let’s not kid ourselves about threads properly deleting posts though. Their database probably just goes DELETED: True;
So do most of mine. Makes maintaining data integrity a lot simpler and it’s how my database replication tools work.
GDPR was the only time I bothered to delete the data, and even then it was me setting the content of the records to “Information removed due to GDPR”.
Being able to undelete data is a powerful customer service tool, and when Grandma’s Facebook account gets hacked (because her password is one of her grandkid’s names), and all the photos get nuked (and being grandma, Facebook is their photo backup solution), they’re probably going to want that all that restoring again.
But then if data privacy was important to you, you wouldn’t have put it on Threads.