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I think it shouldn't be that only people can take their data, I think the main value in social media is keeping a history about the user's actions, where one ha
by Avamander 9y ago
I think it shouldn't be that only people can take their data, I think the main value in social media is keeping a history about the user's actions, where one has been and so on. I think using decentralized servers like that will cost us a lot of data that later would have become to have historical value. We can see this loss of data well with old image hosts and forums, so much has been lost...
- zaarn 9y agoI see no problem in someone writing an archival activitypub implementation; a crawler that attempts to save and index the fediverse into a permanent record. Of course, you'll need permission (though sometimes asking for forgiveness can be good enough)
- warkdarrior 9y ago> sometimes asking for forgiveness can be good enough You do not want to start there, Facebook's MO is exactly that.
- zaarn 9y agoweb.archive.org has been archiving webpages for decades and I don't see anybody making a fuss about it since they are primarly archival. If you are a website owner you can easily opt out or have your data deleted. Facebook's MO is "store all the shit and never delete it", an archival project should have an MO of "archive everything we can get and delete it when somebody complains". Otherwise you'll never be able to archive any significant portion of the internet or fediverse.