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The design of IPFS - using content-based addressing with append-only interactions - makes deleting/revoking basically impossible to implement, let alone guarantee.
There's the dat protocol (now hypercore by holepunch) that handled this better, with content being addressed by key instead, so that the owner of the private part of the key could modify content after "uploading" it.
Unfortunately, hypercore still hasn't really reached that stable point where you'd like it to be for developing a software like this on top of it.
you're absolutely right about ipfs. its mission of forever preserving the web is awesome but it means that data will last indefinitely (and every version of every piece of data lol)
i had never heard of hypercore. that's pretty cool. maybe lemmy will get some nice fixes for storage, image, video management to make instance media hosting easy for the instance maintainers so they can follow the same path reddit did of hosting post media. that way, media not only stays with the instance but can be edited/deleted by the users