@jalefkowit @bea @craigmaloney In also biased as I said stupid stuff on Twitter years ago, assuming it would vanish, or I would be smart enough to make another account before making professional contacts on it. So I'm on the side of, there is no protecting on public things, don't pretend there is as it one day won't be, learn that now.
@Canageek @jalefkowit @craigmaloney so like
i get this sentiment, i really do, and i used to strongly feel that way myself
however it is possible to affect the degree to which such stuff happens
and i think it's worth doing
like... i do have a whole instance that automatically deletes all toots a while after they're posted
even if it's not perfect (it's not) it still makes things quite different!
@bea @jalefkowit @craigmaloney That feels dangerous to me, as users will assume it is gone, when you have no idea if someone is saving everything to their hard drive. Do people could get a false sense of security. Kind of like Snapchat.
@Canageek @jalefkowit @craigmaloney they know the risks, my about/more is like... half disclaimer
@jalefkowit @bea @craigmaloney @Canageek I always assume that whatever I say online will come back to haunt me. I learned early on when I accidentally crossposted a response on a thread in alt.cdrom that got sent to alt.caving. The eloquent response? "Blow me". My network admin was amused but decided to let me stew a bit anyway.