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I know nothing about the subject, how does file removal work in decentralized networks? I understand once something is on the internet it's out of your control but what if I accidentally post a naked picture when I'm trying to sell something on decentralized-bay and I try to delete it immediately or a few minutes after? What about illegal content that I don't want to redistribute without my knowledge?

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Um... it is hard. Really hard. Let us just hope you don't have WiFi turned on, and can revert your changes first!

In our case, we have a tombstone delete method. So as long as every peer that saved your data (and people aren't gonna just save it for free) comes online at some point, after you've nulled/tombstoned the data, then it will be deleted.

This is only true because of our CRDT system that lets you update/mutate data. It is not true or a general property of other decentralized systems though.

We have to learn to treat all the content we post like the words we speak publicly. If it's out, it can't be taken back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

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