It just feels kind of gross having parts of me hanging out on the internet for too long. Like I haven’t been able to wash my hands/face for a while. I do it manually occasionally, but I have to block off a morning or evening for it now when I used to be able to do it with a couple mouse clicks then go off to take a shit or w/e.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Yeah… the concept of “deleted” was never really a thing on the internet and I don’t think it is still. If you don’t want it to be on the internet forever… don’t post it. Lemmy is pseudoanonymous, just choose a different username and 99% likely no one will ever know it’s you.

    • aedalla@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t wash my hands at work to be sterile (most of the time). “Sterile” is different from “clean” in the terms I’m formally educated in. To follow that analogy I just want my info to be “clean.” I want to remove most of the stuff from immediate public access periodically. I utilize other stuff too like periodically changing usernames and whatnot, same as I change an isolation gown or strip and wash my clothes as soon as I get home. None of that guarantees perfect removal of 100% of microbes, and this won’t prevent all people ever from accessing my info. But that’s no reason to never even rinse my digital ass. I just want a digital-ass bidet, not a digital autoclave.