Actually there is stuff I posted to Reddit just a couple of years ago that neither I, search engines, or any of the clients can even find anymore. Same for a c

Actually there is stuff I posted to Reddit just a couple of years ago that neither I, search engines, or any of the clients can even find anymore. Same for a couple of public Slack groups. I consider these services as wholly ephemeral. Same goes for any product from Google, since they are notorious for service termination. In doing so, they abandoned their core promise of indexing the world's information. G+ is gone, and the Groups archive is ever-thinning: Usenet posts I made a couple of decades back were once accessible thus, since Google bought the Dejanews archives, but are no longer discoverable. Fortunately all my most interesting snippets and contributions these days start life in my own private repositories, so I have my own record. Everyone should do the same.