ynniv on Nostr: I have a hard time reconciling the availability of things socially with the ...

I have a hard time reconciling the availability of things socially with the availability of them adversarially. Yes, we have delete and edit and maybe expiring uploads ... for friendly participants. But not all participants are friendly, and retraction is a powerful signal that can reveal weaknesses.

Eric Schmidt, while CEO of Google, said the quiet thing very loudly:


"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

I can't tell if he said this for the right or wrong reasons, but it only gets truer. Be aware of the durability of your messages. As Earl Long said:

"Don't write anything you can phone.
Don't phone anything you can talk.
Don't talk anything you can whisper.
Don't whisper anything you can smile.
Don't smile anything you can nod.
Don't nod anything you can wink."

GM