Meanwhile archive sites are getting sued by greedy copyright owners
.... for illegally distributing copyrighted material....
I'm so tired of whiny bitches expecting everything for free
I'm so sick of whiny corporate bitches thinking they deserve $400 million payouts because some website implemented a free digital library of books they already owned so people could still borrow them during COVID when all the libraries were shut down.
Hey I totally understand why they did it, I'm just saying it's not how the law Works around copyright, and that's not changing until we change the law
yes but what you said in reaction to "when sites try to archive information and incredibly rich copyright holders with infinite money and lawyers sue them to the detriment of human wellbeing in order to earn a pittance more to add to their infinite dragon hoard and that's bad" is "you're a whiny bitch."
perhaps it would've been worth considering adding your thoughts on the nuances of how laws bind vs protect people in the original comment?
No, I don't owe it to everyone reading my comments to explain my complete thoughts on everything, people shouldn't be out to try to change everybody's opinions on everything all the time?
Why post an incomplete comment then if you're too lazy lmao
incomplete =/= satiating your desires to understand where I'm coming from
Meaning you couldn't find a way to explain your bullshit boot licker comment that was sufficiently flattering to your ego.
Obvious troll at this point
people shouldn't be out to try to change everybody's opinions on everything all the time?
Why are you trying to change my opinion on changing other people's opinion?
I don't owe it to everyone reading my comments to explain my complete thoughts
Oh, i guess you won't answer that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're literally on EVERY post just spewing hateful bullshit for no reason. Grow up
The whiny bitches to whom you refer clearly do not appreciate your analysis.
They sure seem to have no issue gathering all our data and info for free.
So, in short, the whole “just someone else’s computer” thing will always come back to bite you. And of course, we’re still struggling with this. Here on the Fedi, everything is tied up on servers run by admins we know little about without much recourse to download archives or migrate, unless you’re up for full self hosting.
Except the fediverse is highly resilient in this regard, since all of the data is replicated. If an instance goes down, all of that instance’s posts are still available on every other instance.
There is that, yes. But how much control do you the user have over those caches should the original server/instance from which they were made go down? Can you easily archive or retrieve them? Edit or delete them? Do anything to further ensure their longevity? Link them back to your new social media account so that others can easily identify them as yours? Verify, in any way, that they were (or were not!) written by you as the owner of a new account?
Definitely a few of the major things lacking in the Lemmy/kbin world.
theoretically one couls create a lemmyverse archive that crawls the lemmyverse and subscribes to all communities it finds and archives all federation activities that it receives
Would you even need to subscribe?
Setting up an instance should probably work, unless other instances choose to defederate from it, I guess
Instances only collect stuff from communities that have at least one subscriber on their sever.
And it looks like it may only pull new posts and comments and not old archives.
Imagine if, in 100 years, there was a massive Carrington Event and most of the world's data was destroyed. How would we piece our history back together?
How would we piece our history back together?
Maybe some kind of foundation to stem the period of bahbawism?
Remember what happened to that foundation? And the alternative doesn't actually work based on our medical and scientific knowledge.
Stupid psychohistory.
Stupid sexy Harry.
"The aurora over the Rocky Mountains in the United States was so bright that the glow woke gold miners, who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning."
Lol, this must've been hella confusing.
Luckily, it is possible to shield the power supply from a carrington event at least, and we do have satellites keeping watch. The main issue is making sure all the power infrastructure is actually shielded, which costs money >.<
Bro Texas won't even pay to weatherize their power grid and they know cold weather happens every winter.
Can't say you're wrong tbh :p
Pretty obvious. We build a time machine to go back to 1776. Then, when it malfunctions and sends to 1976 instead we learn the art of The Hustle.
I'll be honest, I had forgotten MySpace was a thing back then. Every single page I went to was gaudy as hell and took forever to load on my dial up connection at the time. I'm a little surprised they're still around. And damn, it looks a lot different!
Yea it’s a music centric site now, right?
Edit: I was curious so I looked it up. They either have 6-10 employees and 1-5M in revenue, or 523 employees and 84.2M in revenue, depending on whether you misspell ‘employees’ in the search or not (on bing).
I don't remember the specific article I read that dove into this but it was essentially sold due to it being one of the first large data collections (user data). I'm not sure the extent its traweled now but before the social media machine took off, it was the largest if not one of the largest concentrations of actual data points to run algorithms against.
I see this as a plus. People have a right to be forgotten. The problem nowadays is that companies track you and keep all your data forever and then use it to advertise to you.
At the very least, data collection and preservation should be explicitly opt-in.
If you really want to save something, download it yourself.
Do not worry. History will not forget the murders American thugs comitted there.
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