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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 06:45:27 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

   • Danyl Strype
   @strypey :]
   
   > Can you retract a private mail message? How?
   No. Not in any openly federated system because of the laws of physics (you know, time only goes forward etc.).
   
   > Can you retract a post? How?
   No. Not in any openly federated system because of the laws of physics (you know, time only goes forward etc.).
   
   The answers are also true for any other, also closed and centralised, system eventually being sent (copied) to any machine the message author does not control.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 07:09:39 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • Danyl Strype
     @strypey Yeah, but as you don't control the remote server you have no guarantee whatsoever that the protocol is actually fulfilled.
     
     I'm guessing the trick to ignore these retractment requests are about 1 commented line in #Hubzilla for example. (not to mention backups etc. etc.)
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 07:10:31 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • GNU Social
     • Danyl Strype
     @strypey For example !GNUsocial allows for remote deletion but there is no guarantee that anyone cares about the requests. Take older #StatusNet installations for example, they don't support the 'delete' verb.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 07:33:38 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • Danyl Strype
     @strypey ...but he uses it as a selling point for #Hubzilla that everything is ultramegasuperprivate and whenever you delete something from one place it's gone everywhere etc. etc. which makes me a bit doubtful.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 09:52:16 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

     • Danyl Strype
     My suggestion is that you use a pseudonym for your sexual fetish discussion (in case this is confidential) that has no connection (tor etc. helps jere) with your actual account instead of rely on sysadmins and developers to be perfect beings.