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Fascinating experiment in ephemerality. If a page is popular, more people will see/share it amongst themselves... but as soon as it loses interest... the conten
by ShakataGaNai 3y ago
Fascinating experiment in ephemerality. If a page is popular, more people will see/share it amongst themselves... but as soon as it loses interest... the content is gone.
Also a high potential for content to be gone before it can be indexed.
- nickdothutton 3y agoA few years ago I wrote a little about how we might harness something like this to preserve user generated content when the platform collapses. https://blog.eutopian.io/beating-the-samson-option/ https://blog.eutopian.io/beating-the-samson-option/
- nomel 3y agoWhat's old is new: torrent. ;)
- TheJoeMan 3y agoI think it would make a fascinating tik-tok clone where you don’t have to pay storage fees! Except you could charge users to help them seed if they don’t want to leave their phone app running until they go viral.