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> people have hundreds and thousands on conversation on these apps that can't be easily moved elsewhere. I just asked it to build me a searchable indexed downl
by lll-o-lll 8mo ago
> people have hundreds and thousands on conversation on these apps that can't be easily moved elsewhere.
I just asked it to build me a searchable indexed downloaded version of all my conversations. One shot, one html page, everything exported (json files).
I’m sure I could ask Claude to import it. I don’t see the moat.
- bdangubic 8mo agothere is no moat also because conversation history is useless. like saying “I cant move to DDG cause Google has my search history”
- bryanrasmussen 8mo agohttps://myactivity.google.com/myactivity https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity it's not useless, although it used to be more useful than it is now.
- ziznznzb 8mo agoHow do you know all your conversations are in there? Honest question I have this issue a lot with AI claims. Nobody verifies the output.
- simonw 8mo agoSo far I've not seen anyone complain that their conversations have gone missing. There's a GDPR-style export option that I've used a few times for my own.
- lll-o-lll 8mo agoI did verify the output. You can download your stuff via their api
- mcny 8mo agoOk so it worked correctly today, for you. How do we know it will continue to do so five years down the road when they are suffocating for cash? The more stuff we have there, the harder it becomes to verify their takeout will have everything.
- gbalduzzi 8mo agoI think it depends on the task. How bad it is if put of 200+ conversations, a couple of those are not exported correctly? Not much honestly. If I verify some of those and they are ok, I would see no reason to keep verifying all of them.
- carlosjobim 8mo agoHow do you know anything five years down the road? You don't even know where you yourself will be. When proven wrong, hackers always say "Well in 5 years time or in 10 years time, things might have changed, so I was right and you were wrong". It limits your own reasoning capabilities, and your satisfaction of always being right yet again will start diminishing with time.
- gosub100 8mo agoWell said. I think people don't know when to just back down. Arguing the latest reply becomes a reflex rather than a 2-way discussion.
- mcny 8mo agoI'm trying to motivate one or hopefully both of these ideas - if it is worth backup up or exporting, it is worth doing it early and often - but more importantly if we backing up and exporting, we should be continuously thinking are we even on the right platform? Does a better alternative exist?
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