Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened?
There is no solution for that beyond properly setting user expectations. Users may want to understand that anything published on the internet should be assumed to be a permanent record. Anybody that can access a post on any website has the ability to copy and re-post it on another website such as an internet archive.
Wowww, super important story for all lemmy users to read and learn from. I believe the fediverse is the solution to Ello’s self-inflicted problems.
Go support your local instance. Let’s see if we can keep this going, as a non-VC funded community this time.
And yet the fediverse has the opposite problem. You can never trust that something you deleted has actually been deleted on other servers.
There is no solution for that beyond properly setting user expectations. Users may want to understand that anything published on the internet should be assumed to be a permanent record. Anybody that can access a post on any website has the ability to copy and re-post it on another website such as an internet archive.