That's cool. I didn't know about the .json URL trick.
After reading Sanger's post and both yours and @bil.prag's responses, I think the only thing lacking from Hive is a private data and removable data. You have control of your data in that your keys can publish or edit posts. But, there are limits to what you can control. The public, immutable ledger prevents you from storing confidential data and prevents you from erasing your data.
I guess you could argue encrypted memo's fill the need for confidentiality. But, there's no hope from erasing data once it's in the chain (short of a hard fork).
yes the deleting it is the "problem" but if you can delete it there would probably be an option for someone else to delete it so it is a compromise.
encrypting it could be a solution, but for me it looks like it would complicate all the other points in it.
Wonder why he doesn’t like blockchains. I guess the financial aspect makes people think there is a philosophical clash with “free information” concept. Goes to show you how unique and undervalued Hive is.
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i don't know, but yes from his replays it is obvious that he is not found of blockchains. it will be interesting to see what he thinks is the problem and what is not in line with what he wrote. from my point not a lot.
Deleting data would kinda go against blockchain, no? Doesn't the immutability of the data what makes blockchain secure?
At the same time, I think storing private data and removing can be possible on layer 2. It is for Apps to develop and come up with solutions. For example, Hive has 'custom_json' operation where we can store any kind of text data.
Sometime I wonder if following scenario is possible. We could build an app that would encrypt the data and store the data in the encrypted form. Only user would be able to access that data in a meaningful way. For everybody else it would be some random text with no meaning. When we need to delete the data, we destroy the link between the data and decryption. That way nobody, even the original user can access it anymore.
It kinda like how computers work. When we delete a file on our computer, data actually is still in the hard drive, by simply clicking delete we only removed the link to the location of the data on the hard-drive.