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Is someone backing up social media posts ?? Won't they be just gone when the platform shuts down ?
by BlueTemplar 4y ago
Is someone backing up social media posts ?? Won't they be just gone when the platform shuts down ?
- zimpenfish 4y ago> Is someone backing up social media posts ?? I backup my Twitter timeline[1], Fediverse timeline and Instagram posts but I appreciate that's an infinitesimal drop in the ocean. [1] Also a whole bunch of other stuff like "favourites on twitter/instagram/flickr/etc" get IFTTT'd to Pinboard, Day One, Dropbox, Perkeep, etc.
- UncleMeat 4y agoArchiving digital communications is an interesting problem. I'm sure that over time a very large amount of digital communications will be lost to time. But that's true for the archive already. The large majority of communications from 500 years ago are also lost to time, but we can still do history. We'll still be able to do history in 500 years even if only a small portion of Twitter ends up being archived.