Sooooo yesterday I learned that deleted casts are never deleted bc they are stored onchain 

I found that to be a jarring discovery as a user bc @dwr.eth indicated with the storage situation that casts are meant to be zeitgeist-ish, impermanent

Also DCs are auto-deleted so that gave the impression of impermanence

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I didn’t say anything bad with my deleted casts (and I think generally people here are friendly and kind so we weren’t harmed by this discovery)

I wonder if this mechanism should be more disclosed ahead of time so that people aren’t surprised, esp coming from web2

Thoughts?

Ohhhh

So what @fun pulled up was from his hub archiving data? 

But wait, functionally this is the same as having permanent record though 😂 I see what you mean, it’s like internet archive or some kind of Twitter scraping app 😅

Ohhhh

So what @fun pulled up was from his hub archiving data? 

But wait, functionally this is the same as having permanent record though 😂 I see what you mean, it’s like internet archive or some kind of Twitter scraping app 😅

https://warpcast.com/christin/0x1eaa6762

They aren’t stored onchain and they are deleted when you delete them. That said, people are free to archive all data on the network since it’s permissionless.

Yeah to me the issue is informed consent 😅 it would be very important for new users to know where their casts are going and stored, written in plain language and not technical language

Like we do for clinical trials!

I think this is a valuable insight for new users, and, over time, there should be some privacy preserving infrastructure for certain clients 

Maybe a wrapper on a hub that does not sync casts with the protocol, unless user-permissoned at the client level

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Yes I wish there’s an edit button I could use on the original cast 😅

So..the issue is that there are gonna be tons and tons of hubs right, and anyone can spin up a hub

So all the casts go everywhere technically and it wouldn’t be reasonable for a user to chase them all down and GDPR them all? @keccers.eth

they aren't stored onchain. 

they are stored on hubs, which will delete them if you either press delete or stop paying for storage.

Casts are not stored onchain. Unless something has changed about the protocol since @v wrote this, renting space instead of writing to the blockchain is a core distinction of the Farcaster design. @dwr.eth can confirm?

Casts are not stored onchain. Unless something has changed about the protocol since @v wrote this, renting space instead of writing to the blockchain is a core distinction of the Farcaster design. @dwr.eth can confirm?
https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks

Your assumption for all data shared publicly on the web in an unencrypted manner is that it will live forever.

Even if the service/protocol deleted it, others could store a copy.