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What we’ve lost: The MySpace war files and the impact of a digital 'Dark Age' (spectrumlocalnews.com)
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Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.

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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Would you even need to subscribe?

Setting up an instance should probably work, unless other instances choose to defederate from it, I guess

[–] RobotToaster@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Instances only collect stuff from communities that have at least one subscriber on their sever.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it looks like it may only pull new posts and comments and not old archives.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah pre-federation stuff would need another more complicated solution

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it federates it if a user comments.. I think. Not sure.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

according to the docs if you search a comment it will federate that comment, its direct ancestors, and the post it was made on. But not all the comments for that post

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Ah interesting, didn't know that :)

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