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A few days ago I noticed and made a post about the fact that TruthSocial was still linking to the Mastodon code base... https://poal.co/s/SocialMedia/504350

Today I noticed that TruthSocial removed the link https://truthsocial.com/open-source and I went to comment on the post but I found the entire sub is gone... and so are dozens of other subs. All deleted by a now deleted user. So some one table flipped, disabled all of the subs they owned, and then deleted their account.

https://poal.co/sitelog

This is an eye opening event for me... This seems like a unintended backdoor to censorship. I know we have malicious actors that visit Poal and I would not be surprised if some sub owners are sleeper agents. Are we OK with subs being able to just disappear with no over site?

A few days ago I noticed and made a post about the fact that TruthSocial was still linking to the Mastodon code base... https://poal.co/s/SocialMedia/504350 Today I noticed that TruthSocial removed the link https://truthsocial.com/open-source and I went to comment on the post but I found the entire /s/SocialMedia sub is gone... and so are dozens of other subs. All deleted by a now deleted user. So some one table flipped, disabled all of the subs they owned, and then deleted their account. https://poal.co/sitelog This is an eye opening event for me... This seems like a unintended backdoor to censorship. I know we have malicious actors that visit Poal and I would not be surprised if some sub owners are sleeper agents. Are we OK with subs being able to just disappear with no over site?

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But when you own the subs? To me it plays into more of a subvert and wait to strike.

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I think when you delete your account, the subs under your control go dark as well. If any of the subs were controversial, I can see it being malicious, but most of them were so low traffic no one knew they existed.

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I wonder if your subs have mods if they stay open when you go dark.

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This is a potential issue though, what if a sub with a ton of posted information that was one of the only gathering points for such info on the web, disappeared? Sleeper subs would be an excellent long term tactic. As would simply hacking the users Pc or phone which is both highly possible or a Given fact depending on who is doing the hack, delete everything you don’t want seen, crash their system and they think it’s was a hardware or OS crash.

I think the subs should live on. I could see having deleted usernames stripped off, BUt the posts should remain.

Shouldn’t they? Is there some Opsec reason to be able to nuke the sub from orbit and spirit away?

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This is a potential issue though,

It isn’t. Anything done by rogue users can be reverted.

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I'm not sure if you have to manually select your subs for deletion when you leave or if it does it automatically. Since you can't otherwise delete or disable a sub without owner intervention, it's probably something automatic. No idea why the design choice was made, that's something you'd need to ask AOU.

If you have a controversial or other place that's being controlled by a third party, it behooves you to have at least two or three failover points in case that first place goes away.