Obligated? It depends on the users a bit (since you say migrating, I guess I already know them?).

But generally a reminder won’t hurt. Not everyone gets educated on digital spaces and also we tend to forget which consequences our posts might have.

You mentioned young people as an example who should be able to fuck up without it being held against them too long and I agree. I think public social media might not be the best place for that in general, and certainly not with names that can easily be mapped to their offline id.

but usually when using social media we can operate under the assumption that the delete button works.

Not at public sites. There’s several websites that mirror whole reddit where you’ll find plenty of deleted posts and comments. There’s Twitter archives as well that keep copies of all kinds of accounts and posts.

You may have better chances in semi-public social media like Facebook where you have to be logged in to see anything. But you really can’t operate under that assumption as long as you’re on public social media.

Communicating with each other does not mean you can withdraw your post from everywhere.

Every public post in the never can and will be copied elsewhere, be it the Internet archive, a reddit mirror, a screenshot on Tumblr, Google search index or some scraping AI. You have zero say in this and you are not able to withdraw it - even if there’s some law that says you can, in many cases you don’t even know about the copy. And if you send a letter and ask them to delete it, they can say yes but you can’t know for sure.

There’s no way to guarantee someone will delete something you sent them. They’ll always be able to take a copy.

The fediverse can’t do that either. Nobody can. But the fediverse has a specified way to tell “this post isn’t here anymore, would be cool if you would delete it as well” and for the biggest part, other instances will respect that.

What makes a flat fatal for you? It’s fatal for the idea of sovereignity over where your posts end up. But that’s mostly a given for any kind of public online posts - everyone can just make a copy. I don’t think that should be used as an excuse not to try gaining as much sovereignity as possible, but it’s certainly not something preventing “wide scale adoption”.

I think I’ve read about something like that a few years ago but I don’t remember exactly. Was originally made for traffic accidents where you want to collect evidence against the other driver threatening you or similar, but should be exactly that.

Playing information ping pong. We sent them some issue with a lot of information and instead of actually investigating they often dragged on the whole thing by asking for details they should have themselves, taking hours-days to respond etc before they actually did something. We often had to escalate issues via our account manager.

This was all on enterprise support while I was working for a company that paid six figures each month for infrastructure in their data center.

Only know Ionos in DE but I can’t recommend it, the support is pretty bad.

Cool! Thought it’s like alternative.to but it’s actually finding free instances of Etherpad, Jitsu etc.

Denke, zwei drei Sätze zu jedem Eintrag wären relativ hilfreich. So ist es einfach eine lange Liste ohne Einblick was was ist.

Edit: NVM, missed the part where you disabled remote images.