billzh
@billzh
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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Varun Srinivasan
@v
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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billzh
@billzh
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)
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
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
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billzh
@billzh
No, I mean I can just sync everything to Postgres and not delete stuff there
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
Tactically, what happens when bots are posting thousands of likes eveyr second but letting them expire without paying for storage? More broadly, we've had plenty of networks where things you post online is easily copyable and archivable (websites, early Twitter, Tumblr etc), so I don't see it as a novel problem
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billzh
@billzh
No major social network today (Instagram, Tiktok, Wechat etc.) allows easy indexing. Web3 social network just makes it 100x easier, even with the bot issue you mentioned (which also exists in all web2 ones)
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
Sure, but my point is that most of social web 1 was open, so its not a novel state.
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