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   Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 23:20:17 JST Luci for Chai Tea

   just fyi, the day fedi adds a workibg global full history text search is the day i permanently delete all my accounts. that is what i did when twitter added it in 2013. i told everyone else to delete theirs too but they all thought i was nuts.

   now look at all the celebrities brought down by bullshit they tweeted in 2009, and who knows the full human cost of mass keyword bullying

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     Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 23:20:16 JST Luci for Chai Tea

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     full text search let places like fruit cultivators build dossiers on trans people.

     i notice it is cis people advocating hardest for full text search. if you don’t know what it’s like to fear having your whole life upended by some detail you tweeted out 5 years ago that leads to doxxing then don’t.

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     Rune :BlobhajShock: (rune@mcd.dk)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 23:22:53 JST Rune :BlobhajShock:

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     @zens I think everyone should consider auto deleting their posts after some amount of time.

     I picked two months because after that time I don't really benefit interactions or referencing it. It's just a liability to have them around for longer.

     Sure, anyone can replicate them in bad faith before they disappear, but at least I'm not making it easy to find on my profile or through search engines that exist or may exist in the future.

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     Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 23:22:55 JST Luci for Chai Tea

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     that’s the chilling effect of adding full search: it changes the tone of what you can post because you now must expect hostile randos to dig through your trash and use it to character assassinate you. and it’s galling to see privileged people be super excited for that future

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     Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 23:22:56 JST Luci for Chai Tea

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     but there’s a more basic thing here- before twitter added full historical search, people tweeted with the expectation that older tweets basically became inaccessible eventually- and adding the search violated that expectation without their knowledge or consent.

     i thought it through- that’s why i deleted my account, and tweeted (and deleted ) hence with the expectation that personal details that could possibly identify me, and certain jokes were no longer safe