In-reply-to » @movq @falsifian @prologic Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and You've probably already read this: Everything you need to know about the ā€œRight to be forgottenā€ coming straight out of the EU's GDPR Website itself. It outlines the specific circumstances under which the right to be forgotten applies as well as reasons that trump the one's right to erasure ...etc.

@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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