Hmm, I agree in principle with your last sentence, but not sure how it works.
People can “edit” their posts on here, but I do wonder how that works in decentralized way since from what I understand, the ActivityPub protocol (which I think all Fediverse tech is based off (??) ) is similar to email - in the sense that I’ve already sent you the email with my selfie on it, and I can only request in a follow up email that you delete it.
ActivityPub is similar to email in a lot of ways but has some key differences. One of them is it’s based around an “activity” feed where users can initially “create” posts/comments/etc. It also supports other activities though such as “update” (edits) or “delete” which are propagated across instances which have the content.
It should be that you can post a delete activity and the origional object (comment/post) is replaced with what ActivityPub calls a “Tombstone” which is basically just a place holder, this delete activity should be then federated across to other instances.
Hmm, I agree in principle with your last sentence, but not sure how it works.
People can “edit” their posts on here, but I do wonder how that works in decentralized way since from what I understand, the ActivityPub protocol (which I think all Fediverse tech is based off (??) ) is similar to email - in the sense that I’ve already sent you the email with my selfie on it, and I can only request in a follow up email that you delete it.
ActivityPub is similar to email in a lot of ways but has some key differences. One of them is it’s based around an “activity” feed where users can initially “create” posts/comments/etc. It also supports other activities though such as “update” (edits) or “delete” which are propagated across instances which have the content.
It should be that you can post a delete activity and the origional object (comment/post) is replaced with what ActivityPub calls a “Tombstone” which is basically just a place holder, this delete activity should be then federated across to other instances.
Ah I see, thanks for the extra information. Does anyone know then whether lemmy.ml honors deletion?
I think that’s right. A request for deletion gets made and it’s up to each server to decide if they will honor it.