I'm not sure how practical/sustainable of a project this would be, but I feel that it could possibly be a useful project in the future if instances begin to purge old content due to storage constaints. The archiving service could store all the data using Object storage to archive it in read only. That way, at least people can still view old content in the possible scenario of rampant data loss across the Fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But why? If you want something to be more permanent you save it or host the content yourself. Social Media should be considered volatile and not be a knowledge base.

[–] Kalcifer 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Forums are an invaluable source of information for countless purposes. Even extremely old forum posts can be a life-saver.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Forums aren't really social media though.

[–] douglasg14b 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And Lemmy really isn't either. Just like old reddit, it's more forum than it is social media.

But on that note, forums are a form of social media.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you ever find out let me know, I've some GDPR and right to be forgotten requests to write if anyone is archiving things I expect to be fire and forget.

[–] Plopp 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

GDPR and right to be forgotten for an anonymous account?

[–] leraje 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the-federation.info is probably the most comprehensive.

Edit: sorry, didn't read the question properly. Archiving content? Don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Something like this would definitely be useful.

[–] douglasg14b 1 points 11 months ago

Sounds like a fun project 🤔