5 ms·
Would be sorta nice if someone published it as a browsable archive, preferably with the names replaced (in a way that any identity should be local to the group
by alwayslikethis 3y ago
Would be sorta nice if someone published it as a browsable archive, preferably with the names replaced (in a way that any identity should be local to the group and time) for privacy, like the mailing list or usenet archives. Maybe we'll be able to find stuff on the internet again.
- mjevans 3y ago@some other name some other name blah blah So X did Y with Z etc. Anonymous is unlikely to be possible with this dataset.
- llm_trw 3y agoAnonymity is impossible with _any_ dataset. If you have more than three pieces of information about a person you can unmask them quite easily with nothing more than a google search. With the current generation of AI I'm sure you can unmask people en-mass. If only we'd used encryption. Oh well.
- mjevans 3y agoIt's likely worse than that. Any social graph is likely corrosive for anonymity. Who knows whom, who talks to whom. What platforms they connect on and how often. As a society we'd be better off trying to make living in glass houses possible, since we're rapidly approaching the point of seeing through everything.
- Nux 3y agoI agree with the feeling. These should have been public conversations, like the forums discord "killed".
- Dibby053 3y agoHopefully now that there is a website earning money from their chats more people will be willing to make dumps and share them for free.
- rsynnott 3y agoThis didn't go well last time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release