What does it mean to have a social network where you can't delete anything?

I don't think we have quite grasped the implications yet

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Is FC practically any different from X in this regard? 

In both, you can delete your content from the network, but people can preserve your content against your will be screenshotting or using APIs to download.

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It's materially different. It's extremely hard, if not impossible for a third-party to archive everything from Twitter. 

But for FC it's so easy (by design) to have the full global state - I just need to run a hub (and make sure I don't delete anything)

There has always been indexing, but the scale & accessibility is very different for web3. No API today will give me Twitter's global state (& full history). https://warpcast.com/billzh/0xded68a

Also as others have pointed out, messages are not signed on web2 social, which may give you plausible deniability

Google also has indexes of all your old tweets

No, I mean I can just sync everything to Postgres and not delete stuff there

Running a hub that doesn’t delete anything is far from easy. 

You’ll get kicked by peers for failing sync trie checks, and if someone is spamming the network they can make your hub run out of space and crash

The Library of Congress has years of old Twitter data fyi