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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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

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)

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)

With X I only need to request them to take down my content. Even if others index it, it still gives plausible deniability (esp. with more generative content/fakes/AI, etc.). 

With FC and other web3 socials, easy indexing + cryptographic proofs would make it hard to completely delete (or deny)