Nicely put, I hadn’t considered it like that. On the Fediverse my posts auto delete every two weeks. I hate when people dig through old social media posts to compromise people. It’s similar there in that a post never really deleted unless every server clears its cache but I liked the idea of slow decay too. Part of me still wants social media to be ephemeral but I’m old enough now to not give a shit. 

 Yeah that’s a good point — cleaning up old or embarrassing content, or having ephemeral/auto-deleted notes (like in Signal) would be nice. My issue though is that it’s really just an illusion; there’s guaranteed to be a relay soaking up all the content and never deleting it, so I think it would create a false sense of security