Bsky.storage: Own Your Social Identity
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Discussion about the concept of 'owning your social identity' through decentralized storage, with skepticism about data control.
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4 months ago
If it's going to a web3 filesystem from which I can't delete it then it's not really "mine". Just like my account/data here isn't "mine" so I can only treat it as a throwaway. My accounts on Twitter and Reddit were mine enough that I could delete all of my content before leaving them. That's a non-negotiable.
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