@movq@www.uninformativ.de @falsifian@www.falsifian.org @prologic@twtxt.net Maybe I donā€™t know what Iā€™m talking about and Youā€™ve probably already read this: Everything you need to know about the ā€œRight to be forgottenā€ coming straight out of the EUā€™s GDPR Website itself. It outlines the specific circumstances under which the right to be forgotten applies as well as reasons that trump the oneā€™s right to erasure ā€¦etc.

Iā€™m no lawyer, but my uneducated guess would be that:

A) twts are already publicly available/public knowledge and suchā€¦ just donā€™t process childrenā€™s personal data and MAYBE youā€™re good? Since thereā€™s this:

ā€¦ an organizationā€™s right to process someoneā€™s data might override their right to be forgotten. Here are the reasons cited in the GDPR that trump the right to erasure:

  • The data is being used to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information.
  • The data is being used to perform a task that is being carried out in the public interest or when exercising an organizationā€™s official authority.
  • The data represents important information that serves the public interest, scientific research, historical research, or statistical purposes and where erasure of the data would likely to impair or halt progress towards the achievement that was the goal of the processing.

B) What I love about the TWTXT sphere is itā€™s Human/Humane element! No deceptive algorithms, no Corpo B.S ā€¦etc. Just Humans. So maybe ā€¦ If we thought about it in this way, it wouldnā€™t heart to be even nicer to others/offering strangers an even safer space.
I could already imagine a couple of extreme cases where, somewhere, in this peaceful world oneā€™s exercise of freedom of speech could get them in Real trouble (if not danger) if found out, it wouldnā€™t necessarily have to involve something to do with Law or legal authorities. So, If someone asks, and maybe fearing fearing forā€¦ letā€™s just say ā€˜Their well beingā€™, would it heart if a pod just purged their content if itā€™s serving it publicly (maybe relay the info to other pods) and call it a day? It doesnā€™t have to be about some law/convention somewhere ā€¦ šŸ¤· I know! Too extreme, but Iā€™ve seen news of people whoā€™d gone to jail or got their lives ruined for as little as a silly joke. And it doesnā€™t even have to be about any of this.

P.S: Maybe make X tool check out robots.txt? Or maybe make long-term archives Opt-in? Opt-out?
P.P.S: Already Way too many MAYBEā€™s in a single twt! So Iā€™ll just shut up. šŸ˜…

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com This is one of the reasons why yarnd has a couple of settings with some sensible/sane defaults:

I could already imagine a couple of extreme cases where, somewhere, in this peaceful world oneā€™s exercise of freedom of speech could get them in Real trouble (if not danger) if found out, it wouldnā€™t necessarily have to involve something to do with Law or legal authorities. So, If someone asks, and maybe fearing fearing forā€¦ letā€™s just say ā€˜Their well beingā€™, would it heart if a pod just purged their content if itā€™s serving it publicly (maybe relay the info to other pods) and call it a day? It doesnā€™t have to be about some law/convention somewhere ā€¦ šŸ¤· I know! Too extreme, but Iā€™ve seen news of people whoā€™d gone to jail or got their lives ruined for as little as a silly joke. And it doesnā€™t even have to be about any of this.

There are two settings:

$ ./yarnd --help 2>&1 | grep max-cache
      --max-cache-fetchers int        set maximum numnber of fetchers to use for feed cache updates (default 10)
  -I, --max-cache-items int           maximum cache items (per feed source) of cached twts in memory (default 150)
  -C, --max-cache-ttl duration        maximum cache ttl (time-to-live) of cached twts in memory (default 336h0m0s)

So yarnd pods by default are designed to only keep Twts around publicly visible on either the anonymous Frontpage or Discover View or your Timeline or the feedā€™s Timeline for up to 2 weeks with a maximum of 150 items, whichever get exceeded first. Any Twts over this are considered ā€œoldā€ and drop off the active cache.

Itā€™s a feature that my old man @off_grid_living@twtxt.net was very strongly in support of, as was I back in the day of yarndā€™s design (nothing particularly to do with Twtxt per se) that Iā€™ve to this day stuck by ā€“ Even though there are some šŸ˜‰ that have different views on this šŸ¤£

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