My biggest pet peeve about #Mastodon, or perhaps the whole #decentralized #Fediverse model in general, is that servers will retain cached and/or outdated profile information.
Let’s say, I change my profile info, or I migrate to a new account and want to purge everything from the old account. These changes are reflected immediately on the local server, but the old info could live on in perpetuity on #federated servers that have not been updated, and there is no recourse to rectify that. 1/2
curmudgeonaf /
npub179…hw5tz
2024-09-20 17:34:45
Author Public Key
npub179j7ha62d6n7peys44kdnc57tzqdjkuy7rwyqr6zhrrect5anznq7hw5tzSeen on
wss://relay.mostr.pubPublished at
2024-09-20 17:34:45Event JSON
{
"id": "32d257e3019d5c84343a79d44e47a94c642dd6ac24b8cd0aed4e590691d01d07",
"pubkey": "f165ebf74a6ea7e0e490ad6cd9e29e5880d95b84f0dc400f42b8c79c2e9d98a6",
"created_at": 1726846485,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"t",
"mastodon"
],
[
"t",
"decentralized"
],
[
"t",
"fediverse"
],
[
"t",
"federated"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/curmudgeonaf/statuses/113170611294657606",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "My biggest pet peeve about #Mastodon, or perhaps the whole #decentralized #Fediverse model in general, is that servers will retain cached and/or outdated profile information. \n\nLet’s say, I change my profile info, or I migrate to a new account and want to purge everything from the old account. These changes are reflected immediately on the local server, but the old info could live on in perpetuity on #federated servers that have not been updated, and there is no recourse to rectify that. 1/2",
"sig": "bfe724076422331d5383c7e09f25376af34b3800e7cd45b6eb27fb8b9415a48911f8cfb6f480c87a2f50e2ba737aa0cfddef94711c57123f3670c7830b2635e1"
}