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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Nov-2018 12:21:23 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   I still want more work to be done on Mastodon in order to make it possible to either delete or reduce the visibility of old toots. What I wrote about some personal situation is never going to be read by people who want to check out my profile before they follow me, but could definitely be of interest to anyone who's looking for dirt on me. I don't want random people to snoop around my old content.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Nov-2018 12:25:07 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      If there was a social network where old content fading away was an explicit feature, I'd be interested in that. Snapchat pretty much started out as a social network where two of the main features were intimacy (posts are only shared to the people you pick) and the non-permanence of shared content (snaps could only be viewed momentarily and would then disappear). People found ways around that, but it at least didn't encourage the keeping of records.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Nov-2018 12:26:41 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         @JollyOrc Sure, and perhaps you could include the toot I just added to the thread.

         1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Nov-2018 12:33:40 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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            People make the implicit assumption that content shared over a social network must always be on the record, and that content shared over a video call must never be on the record, but there is no reason one can't do it the other way around, or leave record keeping out of it altogether. Old data on a social network is usually stale data anyway, so there's little reason to keep it around, except for its sentimental value, and that's what downloadable archive files are for.