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By that logic, there’s no point in ever deleting anything online, so why even bother with hiding them? Just leave everything up there forever, whether the person who wrote it still wants it to be there or not.

Also, not everyone has the time, programming skills and resources to just fork a project, never mind run their own server. That’s not a constructive approach to a “this feature ought to work better” discussion.

The fact that other copies might be out there (assuming a crawler archived the particular page while a post was up) isn’t a reason not to remove the copies you can control.

If you use a Nextcloud server, there’s a good collection of apps (some official, some third-party) that work with it. The ones I use:

Nextcloud - main app, does authentication, file access, optional auto-upload photos Nextcloud Notes - kind of like Google Keep, but simpler. (IIRC Carnet is more like Keep, and also open) Nextcloud Talk - instant messaging, supposedly can do voice but I’ve never used it for that Nextcloud News - RSS reader that syncs your feeds and read/unread through your Nextcloud server

Plus these apps that aren’t Nextcloud-specific, but work with it and other sync methods:

OpenTasks - ToDo list (needs Dav5x to sync) DAVx5 - Syncs contacts, calendars and to-do items between any CalDav, CardDav or WebDav servers and your Android system, so you can access them with any local contacts or calendar app. (For instance: K-9 Mail can use contacts from my Google account and my Nextcloud account, and Simple Calendar can do the same with my calendars.) Floccus - Bookmarks manager that can sync across multiple desktop browsers and the mobile app, using any of several sync options including Nextcloud

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Sure, servers are cheaper now. Domains are cheap now. TLS certs are free now. But that happened after the advertising business model became dominant.

For a while, server power was barely keeping up with the rise in demand, and you couldn’t just add another cloud server or bump up the RAM allocation on the one you have, you had to physically install new hardware. That took a larger chunk of money than adding $5 to your hosting plan, and time to set up the hardware.

By the time the tech stack got significantly cheaper (between faster hardware and virtualization, not to mention Let’s Encrypt), advertising was already entrenched and starting to coalesce around a handful of big networks.

Even just caching the not-logged-in views can be a big help, as I’ve found with self-hosted WordPress.

This post alone now has as many upvotes as I saw someone on Reddit claim Lemmy had total users.

I would assume it involves computer-related writings, history, etc. How people communicate online, hypertext fiction, wikis, the differences in how people write and present media online compared to on paper. How people have used memes, emoji, etc. Hacker lore. Some overlap with digital arts and social sciences - ethics, media creation

Sorry, I just can’t take seriously someone who actually takes the Musk/Taibbi spin on the Twitter Files at face value.