Diaspora Community - Feature Proposals

Diaspora* "Post Killer Button" | Tidy up servers and give users control

Thomas Leister Wed 26 Mar 2014 4:41PMPublicSeen by 99

Hi,

In every social network I've ever used there is something missing: A post kill button. You can delete every single post, but what about deleting all my posts of the past year(s)?

Wouldn't it be great if you had the possibility to define a timespan like 2011-2013 and just hit the "Kill" Button and all your Posts and Photos created in this time were deleted from the servers?

We are always collecting data. Gigabyte after gigabyte, but do not think about the relevance of the posts. We could save tons of resources just by deleting stuff nobody needs anymore. Social network posts have an extremely short lifetime. Why should we have so much trash on our pods?

The second point is: Personalities change. You change your opinion, your attitude... maybe you do not want to have posts on the internet which express your identity of the past?

It would be awesome if Diaspora* was the first social network in which you are able to erase your past and tidy up your profile, as well as tidying up the servers. Every user should have the chance to select a certain timespan and delete the content generated at this time.

In conclusion a killer button would help to:
- Free resources on the servers
- Give People control
- Delete content of the past

This is a feature, which I think people want to have. I would like to have it, too ;) It would make Diaspora* stand out of the big crowd of social networks.

Users want to have control. Give them control.

morgensternWed 26 Mar 2014 4:45PM

Great idea, i like it! Posts more the 1 year old are useless IMHO.

theradialactiveWed 26 Mar 2014 5:20PM

I like the idea, but I don't think, that 1 year old posts are useless. I would like to see a "collect posts" feature before, so when I have a really nice and interesting post or debate, I could save that.

WaithamaiWed 26 Mar 2014 5:33PM

older posts are not useless in diaspora*..
they would be useless perhaps if diaspora* was a "social" network like fb where you post personal stuff - it is not useless with diaspora*'s theme-based posting .. if you search for not so popular tags you'll always find pretty old posts - there wouldn't be many posts left if users just deleted their old posts.. (and i love scrolling through tags pages)
another thing is about reshares. if somebody deletes all their older posts, there will be lots of posts left that say 'the original post has been deleted' .. right, we already have that, as one can scroll through the stream and just click delete on each post .. but there would be a lot more of it if somebody deleted all posts of a certain period..

Thomas LeisterWed 26 Mar 2014 5:49PM

@waithamai this would be no problem if the "resharing" posts were deleted at the same time - together with the original post. ;)

When a person decides to let the older posts live, it's okay, but shouldn't the user have the decision to delete his content if he wants to?

S.M. Al MamunWed 26 Mar 2014 6:44PM

Nice Idea. Even sometimes people might want to forget some of their public activity for a certain amount of time. So, a custom duration for that post killer button would be more awesome, I think.

Of course, it's user's personal choice whether he wants to delete something or not!

Should we introduce a "Post Killer Button"?

proposal by Thomas Leister Closed Wed 23 Apr 2014 1:08PM

YES:
I like the idea of having a button whichs allows me to delete all my posts of a certain time period. Decisions about the details will be discussed later. (Preview of the posts etc)

NO:
I don't want to have a button like this.