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2120 sats \ 19 replies \ @siggy47 22 Dec 2023 freebie \ on: @ delete posts...not a fan meta
The nice thing about SN is we own our content, unlike other social media. That includes the power to share it or remove it. Once the power to delete is removed, you might as well be on facebook.
I agree that the feature should remain available, but I share the negative sentiment towards those posts and replies. I'm not likely to engage with content that's just going to disappear soon anyway.
That said, this is how market incentives work. If people want to take the financial hit of making those posts that's up to them. If you want to undermine their efforts, just quote their posts in a reply.
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Not your keys, not your content. I know what you are saying and its true we have more power on SN but we do not own our content. As soon as we put it on someone else's server its not ours. Even if they give us some control.
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No doubt you're right in the bitcoin sense. I still have remnants of lawyer brain where ownership doesn't imply possession, like, for example, you can own a rental house though your tenant may currently possess it. That being said, I shouldn't have brought ownership into it at all. Your point is well taken. I think our ability to control the content we post is critical.
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SN squatters rights
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Yep
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I would say, as soon as someone else has the ability to access it it's not ours anymore
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Exactly. IP is as absurd as believing you own the words you speak at the coffee shop. IP is only normal because of the state.
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So you're saying we will own nothing and be happy? ;D
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LOL. Actually what I'm saying is you cannot own "content". IP is a social construct. Its all about control and you lose control if it isn't your server. The people that control the server have ultimate control. But even they can't stop others copying things. The most logical position is that no one owns the content.
IP is a construct enforced by violence. It has no grounding in natural law or even logic.
Thankfully SN does want to give stackers control but it is theirs to grant. Our power is the ability to leave.
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Completely agree. Here's a great movie that illustrates the concept beautifully. All art is derivative. Copyright is bullshit.
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Thanks, Against Intellectual Property is what changed my mind on the topic. Short and helpful book written by an IP attorney.
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I thought that was rice-a-roni. haha. I'll see myself out.
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Not an SN vs facebook matter, siggy! Information, unlike physical things, can be infinitely copied at zero cost. This is precisely Satoshi's innovation: the ability to keep ownership in an informational realm.
One might have the power to remove their own copy but not the power to remove other copies. It's just a matter of time, someone will create a bot/scraper to copy all those comments marked with @ delete. This exact same thing happened with Reddit (see https://www.reveddit.com/ ).
The only thing it achieves is make it more inconvenient for others to read older threads - the information will be around no matter how you hard you delete it.
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I'm not sure if it's evident from my prior post, but I agree with what you're saying. In essence we give up ownership, however it's defined, and control the minute we start posting. I value the inconvenience you talk about.
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đź‘Ť
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If you know you're going to delete something AS you are posting it, why do you bother posting it at all?
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Probably because it’s cheap, and highly probable you’ll make your sat back and then some. Maybe comment and delete costs should be up to the territory owner
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