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I feel I'll outlive TikTok and Threads, and that paper in records offices will ultimately turn out to be the most durable of current record formats in 20 genera
by Macha 3y ago
I feel I'll outlive TikTok and Threads, and that paper in records offices will ultimately turn out to be the most durable of current record formats in 20 generations.
I have already outlived many of the websites where I posted information in my teens, and in recent days we've heard about even big sites like Twitter losing some historical data. Not to mention all the users of sites like Orkut, Google+, Friendfeed, Bebo, that one where you checked in your location that I can't even remember the name of...
- eep_social 3y agoFour Square, got bought by twitter and I kinda hope they lost all my checkin data at this point.
- eep_social 3y agoToo late to edit but this is dead wrong. According to wikipedia they’re still out there chugging along.
- toss1 3y agoYup Twitter/X is evidently seriously bitrotting [0]. Evidently, links to all pre-2014 pics & vids are now dead. Supposedly still on the servers, but whether this is just failing infra or Musk considering destroying all the old data, or putting it behind a paywall is unclear. Either way, all this data is very ephemeral. [0] https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/1692922211416334597 https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/1692922211416334597