<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> Posts are not worthless, they are just not meant to last for eternity. If you want something to endure with time, write it down, long form. elsewhere.</p><p>Words should be able to be lost on the wind, and conversations should be allowed to expire. to let you be unburdened of the past, and let the things it held, be free once more.</p><p>If something specific needs to be preserved, it should be treated differently, as the exception, not the rule.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> many people have weird bad boundaries with regards to how permanent vs not their own posts are / should be vs those of others. like sure, if you want to auto delete after 6 weeks and don&#39;t care to ever revisit anything you said years ago, that&#39;s fine and your choice, but assuming that that&#39;s how *everyone* uses social media is like, borderline hostile. but it feels like a tacit assumption on mastodon and everyone has learned helplessness over big scary tech debt issues.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rain" class="u-url mention">@<span>rain</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@aburka" class="u-url mention">@<span>aburka</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@recursive" class="u-url mention">@<span>recursive</span></a></span> the problem is that I don&#39;t at all feel that Dropbox provides a great user experience, not for source control, not for anything else (and it&#39;s not like I think git is the pinnacle of human achievement either, I just find Dropbox unpleasant and avoid it as much as I can)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> It depends on the usecase. Is this a publishing system or a chat system (yes, I know one of your major projects is persistent logging for chat systems but I haven&#39;t been awake long enough to frame this better)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.fa-fo.de/@fafo" class="u-url mention">@<span>fafo</span></a></span> I don&#39;t even know what I&#39;m looking at here, but there&#39;s something menacing about it.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rain" class="u-url mention">@<span>rain</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@recursive" class="u-url mention">@<span>recursive</span></a></span> my reason is that I really don&#39;t want build products in the source tree, especially given how you can&#39;t remove anything from the history</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> a sentiment I see on fedi is &quot;posts are impermanent, just wipe them&quot; and I couldn&#39;t disagree more. why would I bother to make posts that are worthless</p>

<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/113387231553222876" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@ryanc/113387</span><span class="invisible">231553222876</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.fa-fo.de/@fafo" class="u-url mention">@<span>fafo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://nerdculture.de/@M" class="u-url mention">@<span>M</span></a></span> yeah</p>