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A database of unforgeable append-only feeds, optimized for efficient replication for peer to peer protocols
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'Retires' or 'deletes' reltype #42

Closed pfrazee closed 6 years ago

pfrazee commented 10 years ago

We need a way for users/apps to remove messages from the indexes. A good example: the replication protocol collects the 'follow' links to decide who to fetch, and we need a way to remove links when the user 'unfollows.'

One solution would be to create an 'unfollow' reltype, but I think we can go ahead and generalize the solution with a single reltype. The mechanic would be, if a message is published with the 'retires' (or 'deletes' or whatever) reltype by the same author of the target message, SSB de-indexes the target message from the type index, and from the indexes created by links in the target msg.

dominictarr commented 10 years ago

hmm, okay what about "forget". I think "delete" is misleading, because people are used to delete actually you know, wiping the thing. but "forget" is like "forget I said that" and people intuitively understand that it's not really possible and that it's just polite never to mention this again.

pfrazee commented 10 years ago

I like that

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Dominic Tarr notifications@github.com wrote:

hmm, okay what about "forget". I think "delete" is misleading, because people are used to delete actually you know, wiping the thing. but "forget" is like "forget I said that" and people intuitively understand that it's not really possible and that it's just polite never to mention this again.

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dominictarr commented 10 years ago

I like this idea of a generic delete type hmm, I'm assuming that you should only be able to delete your own messages though.

pfrazee commented 10 years ago

Yeah

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Dominic Tarr notifications@github.com wrote:

I like this idea of a generic delete type hmm, I'm assuming that you should only be able to delete your own messages though.

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pfrazee commented 10 years ago

About the reltype, though, I'm trying to work out a scheme where X "somethings" Y. For example, X replies-to Y, X rebroadcasts Y, X follows Y. "Forget" or "forgets" wouldn't work great in that scheme. Maybe "hides"?

dominictarr commented 10 years ago

well hides has wrong intuition. does it have to be a verb? what about: pfraze "please-forget" i_farted

pfrazee commented 10 years ago

Maybe...

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