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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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
OK, I actually thought about this a bit more after reading. And yes, there is one key difference: - If I publish to X and later delete it, you may back it up or screenshot it, but unless everybody witnessed it, you may also lie about "backing-up" my statement. What if u made it up? I have plausible deniability. (1/2)
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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
If I, however, publish to Farcaster and sign each of my statements with a key, and a person's software downloads all these statements and a record of used keys is publicly available, I'll not be able to plausibly deny having written it. Everyone can verify that I had signed this in the past. (2/2)
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
That's right - there are stronger guarantees that content came from someone. But practically speaking, if someone uses a link to archive.org (for websites) or a tweet index, most people act as if it is the truth, even though there isn't a cryptographic signature.
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