The news that voat has a new "partner" has me nervous. I'm making contingency plans in the event that the partner turns out to insist on some sort of "curation," or if it seems like they're here to use voat as some sort of honeypot. If that happens I would like to remove every trace of everything I've ever posted to voat, but before writing my own script I wanted to check and see if this is work that has already been done.
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PuttItOut ago
Just delete your account.
We wipe all your data, including content replacement, when a user deletes their account (make sure you pay attention to the options as you can leave content or anonymize it too).
It makes me nervous that you are a janitor on a system sub and are posting submissions like this.
Native ago
searchvoat.co still links your deleted account username to your posts even though Voat anonymizes you after
PuttItOut ago
This is something I've been wanting to work on but simply haven't had time.
I think I need to force partners to honor user deletes if they host content externally. It needs to be automated.
Crensch ago
Mind explaining why, on the internet, a rule like this even needs to be put in place? Aside from actual doxxing or illegal content, why is it that the rule abiding Among Us need to be knee-capped when it comes to looking back at Old conversations that we had?
Screenshots and archives will still exist. Being able to search for those things that were important enough for a user to decide to submit is a pretty valuable thing in a community like this.
Even when it's illegal, you can't delete anything from the internet. And while I'm okay with those things being removed here, I think forcing a full deletion for non illegal things is a bit too much.
If the laws change and the right to be forgotten becomes a thing in the United States, I would agree with that. Until then, this is the law of the land, this is the lay of the land.
european ago
In this regard voat censors more than reddit
srayzie ago
I agree with you.
Crensch ago
Maybe, at the very least, the words can stay but the author can be stricken? I don't really know the answer here, but I find myself affected by the auto deletes.