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I’m coming at this from a founder/product angle, not a technical one, so excuse the naive framing. What worries me isn’t scraping itself, but the second-order
by humanji 9mo ago
I’m coming at this from a founder/product angle, not a technical one, so excuse the naive framing.
What worries me isn’t scraping itself, but the second-order effects. If large parts of the web become intentionally unarchivable, we’re slowly losing a shared memory layer. Short-term protection makes sense, but long-term it feels like knowledge erosion.
Genuinely curious how people here think about preserving public knowledge without turning everything into open season for mass scraping.
- bsimpson 9mo agoThis partially feels like an intentional pendulum swing from Twitter/Facebook cancel culture and other forms of policing. I'm thinking in particular about the rise of platforms like Discord where being opaque to search/archiving is seen as a feature. Being gatekept and ephemeral makes people more comfortable sharing things that might get a takedown notice on other platforms, and it's hard for people who don't like you in the future to try to find jokes/quotes they don't like to damage your future reputation. Clearly very different than news articles going offline, but I do think there's been a vibe shift around the internet. People feel overly surveilled in daily life, and take respite in places that make surveillance harder.