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What we’ve lost: The MySpace war files and the impact of a digital 'Dark Age' (spectrumlocalnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by SureIsHandOutside to c/technology
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Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except the fediverse is highly resilient in this regard, since all of the data is replicated. If an instance goes down, all of that instance’s posts are still available on every other instance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is that, yes. But how much control do you the user have over those caches should the original server/instance from which they were made go down? Can you easily archive or retrieve them? Edit or delete them? Do anything to further ensure their longevity? Link them back to your new social media account so that others can easily identify them as yours? Verify, in any way, that they were (or were not!) written by you as the owner of a new account?

[–] Deftdrummer 9 points 1 year ago

These are all good points.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely a few of the major things lacking in the Lemmy/kbin world.