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In b4 discussion of what constitutes hardcoding

Is it actually possible to request deletion of something on someone else’s computer over the internet, and guarantee that its gone?

There’s definitely a bot with a user agent like “fedi big data” doing some scraping in my server logs, does anyone know who that is?

If your instance goes down, then you have no way of deleting your federated posts on your own. So the posts on my lemmynsfw alt will be up forever.

The later people are paying to join and sustain an existing and thriving community built by the earlier people.

I feel like there should be an “are you alive” federation activity in activitypub, as well as an “I’m back” activity.

Servers go up and down enough that maybe it should be part of the spec

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You also cannot blame parents here. Most of us live in societies where a 13 year old can walk home from school on their own, and if they buy cigarettes, alcohol or visit a strip club then the business owner is in trouble. Business owners should figure out how to provide their products safely.

You cannot. Any platform with somewhat private communications and kids will have predators on it.