But I think that the C64 compability of the C128 was detrimental. Because the C64 was so established it resulted in very little C128 native software being made. Publishers could just put a "C128 compatible" sticker on their existing C64 software.
I do think there is a balance to be struck, because directed communication means the recipients of old messages are also stakeholders, such that maintaining a consistent record by default is a fundamental part of the "service" they offer. The message contents are different from e.g. secretly hoovering up click patterns. Matrix had some thoughts when they faced the same questions:
The key question boils down to whether Matrix should be considered more like email (where people would be horrified if senders could erase their messages from your mail spool), or should it be considered more like Facebook (where people would be horrified if their posts were visible anywhere after they avail themselves of their right to erasure).
Solving this requires making a judgement call, which we've approached from two directions: firstly, considering what the spirit of the GDPR is actually trying to achieve…
In Discord culture, indeed, users usually share a shit-ton of PII in "introduction" messages from images to specific hobbies to medical information (EG "support" communities).
The problem from GDPR perspective is that Discoed makes it impossible to delete those, since once thet detect your interest in trying to delete any of your accounts' data, they will try to get to "anonymisize" it. Then at least publicly your username isdisconnected from thos messages, but they can still be traced back to specific persons. Now if this also is done server side, then they would be in a situation where you'd either have to go through ton of messages or to bulk delete past messages of all to enforce the GDPR demands of an user wanting their PII deleted.
EU Parliament is not a real Parliament in the sense that ONLY the Comission can propose new laws, and the elected parliament basically just votes on those. Who controls the Comission if not the people? The US State Department. Newsguard and non-Musk US bigtechs including Discord are in the same poli-financial bed of the establishment here. And they are full of previous state department workers.*
Unless there is public outrage, the
EU-level bodies at least will probably be owned. But Public opinion is controlled by the cyberpunk establishment that trains their LLMs & targets their campaign ads using that illegal Discord data to get political advantage.
You in my view ought to "worry" about the fact that it's possible there will sooner or later no longer be escape from a permanent establishment, Orwell-style. Goes along with the theme that "cybersecurity" is the United States government level has been "war against hate speech" for years, and of course "hate speech" meaning "censorship of internal and external enemy speech."
Budd Dwyers if I recall correctly shot himself in TV after writing to Biden (???) that under some conditions (that became true), the Department of Justice should have "Justice" removed from its name.
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Most of this I hold only at 50+% confidence of being broadly correct. Take with lots of salt.
