You shouldn't have total control over a shared message. You have no right to delete something that you sent to someone else from their device. Same reason you can't delete an email you sent to someone from their inbox or burn a letter you sent via mail.
> You shouldn't have total control over a shared message.
I don't think we should be beholden to the mechanics of snail mail or email (almost 30 years old) when we're designing technologies in 2022 and beyond.
It's impossible to send hundreds of mail envelopes, and would be hard to send hundreds of emails in a minute, and both take deliberate action to accomplish. But I can easily send 100 chat messages in a minute, and in that mode of communication with its web of connections, mistakes are easy to make and speaking for myself I appreciate the ability to correct them.
With that said using telegram has been a breath of fresh air (and I hear whatsapp has it too)
We're not beholden. They are simply good ideas that extend beyond the medium (letters, telegrams, and emails included).
It mimics life, you cannot unsay something.
If someone is hostile in a message towards me, and then deletes that message, in a situation where this eventually goes to court or some other formal proceeding, I need evidence of their action for my own defense.
> mistakes are easy to make and speaking for myself I appreciate the ability to correct them.
Mistakes can be corrected - spelling, factual, or otherwise. Followup messages, staring to correct a spelling mistake, talking on the phone, leaving a voicemail etc.
This is a bad take.