If one stops to think about it, not being able to ever delete by design is a ludicrous concept when it comes to social networking. It takes relatively isolated cases of people mirroring and publicising stuff without consent to an extreme.
Never expecting to need to delete is akin to expecting that you've peaked in life already and future-you will not be looking back and cringing.
Facebook's "On this Day" feature I believe has helped a lot of people realise this - at least when it comes to users who have been around for ~10 or so years.
It might well be possible that the solution to Facebook and Twitter isn't more internet social networking, but more real life networking. So while some people appear to be raving about the merits of Steemit and Mastodon, many more are probably already too jaded to continue on yet another "social" network. The problem isn't necessarily the technology if the problem is us. Fixing societal and political problems by trying to throw more technology at it isn't the answer.
Never expecting to need to delete is akin to expecting that you've peaked in life already and future-you will not be looking back and cringing.
Facebook's "On this Day" feature I believe has helped a lot of people realise this - at least when it comes to users who have been around for ~10 or so years.
It might well be possible that the solution to Facebook and Twitter isn't more internet social networking, but more real life networking. So while some people appear to be raving about the merits of Steemit and Mastodon, many more are probably already too jaded to continue on yet another "social" network. The problem isn't necessarily the technology if the problem is us. Fixing societal and political problems by trying to throw more technology at it isn't the answer.