I've been modifying a couple of previous posts because I've decided to ditch D-Tube and just stick to YouTube. I've had issues with uploading to D-Tube and so had to reshape my YouTube videos on D-Tube but that just seemed dumb.
Given that making a post on Steem directly is pretty much the equivalent of what D-Tube does anyway and given that using the Embed code from YouTube makes for a nicer post as well it seems a little load increasing to post to D-Tube.
This leaves the issue that I find many of us have and that's deleting old posts that are superfluous or broken. I never knew I could just edit a post and delete the D-Tube contents but that still leaves the issue of deleting posts to compensate for the old way of thinking. I can't reuse those posts as different posts because they kind of drop off the radar I assume so having an option to delete them kind of would make sense.
Instead I've just marked them as deleted and left them at that. Doesn't look good having a lot of "[Deleted]" posts though. 🤣
That being said though I'm edging closer and closer to having Steem as my default platform. I'm just waiting to see if GoDaddy will redirect one of my domain names to my Steem account. If that works then I'll repurpose my other domain name to be an online shop.
I'm also in the process of building up my YouTube channel so I'm kind of excited to see how that pans out. It's pretty hard working on a site with so many people but maybe things will fall into place with a bit of work.
That being said it's holiday season here in New Zealand and next week I'll be on holiday going to see my folks who have just moved cities. It's a pretty big deal actually because they've lived in the same town since I was two months old and I turned 44 this October so they've been there a while. In any case posting will be pretty slow for a couple of weeks.
All in all this platform is starting to work out for me so thanks to everyone for that.
@woodenwookie what you're asking for is at the moment technically impossible due to the very nature of a block-chain
a block chain consists of blocks of data that can only be set in between two specific others and nowhere else, that's how the thing works, a chain of blocks that can't be altered :
hence : you can NEVER delete what you posted , i been going about this too several times, especially regarding the EU rules on 'the right to be forgotten' (which cost google a serious yearslong lawsuit already and they CAN delete)
EVERYTHING you post is stored immediately, there's no cooldown period
i asked @timcliff once (software-engineer / witness) he explained it was the intention as originally designed by @ned and @dan (the powers that used to be) scott and larrimer in case they wanted to audit
i still think its a bad idea to not have an extra cooldown layer in between but i'm not the boss here, lol
once something is written to the chain it can't be deleted unless the whole chain would be 're-streamed' into new blocks, omitting the data that one would want to remove (and i doubt they would want to go through the trouble of that ... unless, and thats one of my biggest fears for this thing, they hit a moneywall that's interesting enough for the E.U. to sue them
snickers but not funny
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Yeah it seems odd that by design you can’t delete stuff when they came out at the height of the EU right to delete saga
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