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by X4 4618 days ago
Glad to hear someone else think the same. I believe that it won't change in here though. Someone said: "If you don't like it, fork it" and this is probably true in this case. Maybe even a business opportunity.

However, I somehow lost the hope that bringing this topic would do any change. I even emailed pg, asking to delete my account including all my posts, but got no response ever. idk..

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I think I may have heard kogir mention they don't let people delete accounts and they don't delete posts because it would interfere with the structure of the existing threads. That does kind of make sense but people can still delete individual posts even after they've been replied to so I don't know.

And "forking it" would be the (relatively) easy part. The hard part is getting people to show up and stick around.

Other social networks solve that "problem", by just filling the old posts with "deleted content" and replace the username with "Deleted user".