I like sharing my thoughts and struggles here, but I don’t want it to be a permanent digital footprint and wish to delete all the posts and comments one day.
I like sharing my thoughts and struggles here, but I don’t want it to be a permanent digital footprint and wish to delete all the posts and comments one day.
That maxim is no longer true, especially in the medium-to-long term. Reddit posts older than 8 or so years old aren’t accessible (even to their creators), same with the original Digg posts. If you go back to the Usenet days, most posts haven’t been archived and are lost, especially those from the smaller newsgroups. I expect over the coming decades, we’ll see data loss as a growing issue.
I can see my first reddit posts from 2009 on wayback machine.
Its probably in a government database somewhere, it’s only inaccessible to you.
Reminds me of this joke (with a modern digital-era spin):
The son is accused of drug trafficking
The father: “I can’t access the cloud drive account on [Site Name]”
The son: “If you ever remember the password and get in, delete the account. That’s where my (drug trade) ledger is”
Overnight, the FBI filed subpoena to the cloud company requesting a copy of any files on any of [the father]'s accounts. Within days, the company compiled and send the info to the FBI.
[The son]'s defence attorney got a copy of the files due to the discovery process, and passed it on to the father.
The father: “Son, I don’t know how, but your lawyer just sent me an email this afternoon with all the family photos”
(Original Thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37145912/18347741)