I actually originally was in the process of switching to Aether but that didn’t pan out and lemmy was the next best thing when it came along. I wish they’d implement that 6 month auto-delete though. I understand the concept of things not being able to be taken back on the internet, but I think being able to trace back every single word a person typed going back a decade or more is silly. Like the aether creator said, if it was that important, it would’ve been saved elsewhere in that six month period. Beyond that we really don’t need to know that pixiedust23 said “first” in response to a meme 3 years ago.
That would be a nice feature. Most users here are semi-anonymous, so it will eventually be important to be “forgotten.” A long enough posting history is a threat vector.
I think that was the exact issue. I’ve had people tell me lemmy is too technical for them. Tech illiteracy is actually a huge issue in the health sciences fields at all levels. In fact, a lot of the higher echelons (like research doctors) are worse the higher you go. One of our IT people joked to me that doctor brains are full of doctor things and have no idea how to connect to the correct printer or not click on a phishing email. It’s been one of my biggest barriers to starting hcw communities on here.
I actually originally was in the process of switching to Aether but that didn’t pan out and lemmy was the next best thing when it came along. I wish they’d implement that 6 month auto-delete though. I understand the concept of things not being able to be taken back on the internet, but I think being able to trace back every single word a person typed going back a decade or more is silly. Like the aether creator said, if it was that important, it would’ve been saved elsewhere in that six month period. Beyond that we really don’t need to know that pixiedust23 said “first” in response to a meme 3 years ago.
That would be a nice feature. Most users here are semi-anonymous, so it will eventually be important to be “forgotten.” A long enough posting history is a threat vector.
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Why didn’t aether pan out for you?
The project ended afaik
Oh it did? I had tried to use it like 5 years ago. I guess it was too technical to really take off
I think that was the exact issue. I’ve had people tell me lemmy is too technical for them. Tech illiteracy is actually a huge issue in the health sciences fields at all levels. In fact, a lot of the higher echelons (like research doctors) are worse the higher you go. One of our IT people joked to me that doctor brains are full of doctor things and have no idea how to connect to the correct printer or not click on a phishing email. It’s been one of my biggest barriers to starting hcw communities on here.