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The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration

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  • I don’t want to use any messenger that has that feature. Telegram allows anyone to delete everyone’s message history. Sure it would be fine to delete a sent message that no one has read yet, but afterwards - fuck that.

    “I told you not to remove the blade guard from the circular saw! Now the intern has seven fingers left!”
    “No you didn’t!”
    “You promised you wouldn’t!”
    “No I didn’t”
    Proof of the discussion has been deleted from Telegram.

    “I’m sick of your shitty comments about me! You’ve been at it for years!”
    “Which ones exactly?”
    Proof of bullying has been deleted by sender in Google Messages.

    “Where the fuck is our message history? A decade of texts and photos just gone!”
    “Sorry, I hit the wrong button in Telegram. I tried to delete a single message I had sent.”
    “Jesus fucking Christ! Did any of you ever save a backup?”

















  • This reminds me of when Quora automatically deleted questions containing spam (instead of reverting the spammy edits for some reason), so some political actors used it to provoke the deletion of thousands of years-old inconvenient questions (with all answers) by editing the questions into something that triggered the spam deletion bot. Quora never restored the questions and answers. They did ban the editing of anything, so now the site is full of bad grammar and typos, redundant topics, and wrongly bot-tagged questions.