Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦 on Nostr: I do respect the work of privacy advocacy, but there is a peculiar strain of cargo ...

I do respect the work of privacy advocacy, but there is a peculiar strain of cargo cultism that runs through the profession. I see advice given out like "delete your old posts after six months" as if this were some sort of magic bullet solution.

The Internet is not a Dark Forest. If you publish something, it's a safe bet that whatever it was you put out there is going to live forever on a server somewhere. Deleting it locally does nothing to protect you.

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