I was just thinking about this, when I'm facing an issue, the first thing I do is go to a search engine and usually there's a Reddit post. But I don't want to ask there. And the only way we're going to build up the info for folks to find us and come here is for us to just start asking here. On the Fediverse. We need to build up that mountain of knowledge that Reddit has and will always have. So we should be championing ANYONE asking questions here. Even if we think it's obvious and we think you can just Google it. There was a time where you literally couldn't just Google it. That was built over time. We need to build that here. So start asking your questions here! Find the answers and then post your answer to your own question. Or let someone do it for you. We need to build the knowledge here to be found. It's not just about people looking for alternatives. We need our knowledge to be more valuable than their knowledge.

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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Disassociating with old comments and posts would be a good way to go, but I’m not really sure that’s an option for the fediverse? In theory couldn’t someone in the future set up an instance whose sole purpose is just back up and collect data? How would someone even go about trying to erase themselves from a situation like that?

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right, somebody totally could do that (instances that don't respect post/reply deletion requests are already a known issue), and there's very little you could do about that sort of thing once it's already happened.

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Which is why I think people on lemmy need to get used to the fact that their data isn’t theirs to own on something that is so public facing like this. Instead we should reteach people to be conscious of what information they post. Once upon a time even A/S/L was too much info.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I don't think there would be any way to protect from that, but you'd have the same issue with full deletion.