Re:Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work
by randomString1 on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:42PM
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I know nothing about the subject, how does file removal work in decentralized networks? I understand once something is on the internet it's out of your control but what if I accidentally post a naked picture when I'm trying to sell something on decentralized-bay and I try to delete it immediately or a few minutes after? What about illegal content that I don't want to redistribute without my knowledge?
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Re:Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work
by marknadal on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:57PM
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Um... it is hard. Really hard. Let us just hope you don't have WiFi turned on, and can revert your changes first!
In our case, we have a tombstone delete method. So as long as every peer that saved your data (and people aren't gonna just save it for free) comes online at some point, after you've nulled/tombstoned the data, then it will be deleted.
This is only true because of our CRDT system that lets you update/mutate data. It is not true or a general property of other decentralized systems though.
Re:Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work
by ComodoHacker on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:02AM
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We have to learn to treat all the content we post like the words we speak publicly. If it's out, it can't be taken back.