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(DIR) Post #AJyzJUv1Z0AI1ji5wG by urusan@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T16:02:20Z
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Wife: I just realized that our social media posts (including YouTube) will be primary sources in future history, similar to letters in past generations.
(DIR) Post #AJz02kWwMoAzTc1TyC by Cleoqc@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T16:10:30Z
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@urusan what a sobering thought.
(DIR) Post #AJz1cWXDykL0RwmJ1s by jinxd@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T16:28:13Z
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@urusan Only if you post in public, i suppose. But yeah, church books for ancestry research should be a thing in the past ;)
(DIR) Post #AJz2OP8OnRbjOizu2C by Graycot@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T16:36:52Z
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@urusan "We have discovered an ancient digital transcript from the interweb resource called 'Reddit'. This artifact dates back to the year 2026 during the second roaring 20's and before the century known as the great collapse. The transcript reads as follows:xX_LeftSquid_Xx: 'haha elongated muskrat' _SHIFT69: 'lmao mega poggers'Our best assumptions point to the expression 'lmao mega poggers' as an token of sincere admiration and mutual respect. We advise further research into Pre-English."
(DIR) Post #AJz2d754CapvkUS7SS by Graycot@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T16:39:31Z
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@urusan " We have discovered an ancient digital text from the interweb resource named 'Reddit'. This artifact dates back to the year 2026 during the second roaring 20's and before the century known as the great collapse. The transcript reads as follows:xX_LeftSquid_Xx: 'haha elongated muskrat' _SHIFT69: 'lmao mega poggers'Our best assumptions point to the expression 'lmao mega poggers' as a token of sincere admiration and mutual respect. We advise further research into Old Pre-English. "
(DIR) Post #AJz58o0Cs1anklQ2YS by clmbmb@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T17:07:40Z
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@urusan difference being that a powerful enough solar storm would destroy all our posts, whereas the old paper writings will still live.
(DIR) Post #AJz5RqT3vboGtxzkMC by proactiveservices@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T17:11:06Z
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@urusan Hahaha, future history as in, next week when some data silo's algorithm decides to nuke the account for unspecified reasons.
(DIR) Post #AJz7k58QKoOdVnAI4W by wuwei@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T17:36:48Z
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@urusan Optimistic to think data on the net lasts. My public post from 10-15 ago facebook has already lost
(DIR) Post #AJz7oVRiS6dOGyIZBQ by wuwei@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T17:37:36Z
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@urusan Optimistic to think data on the net lasts. My public post from 10-15 years ago facebook has already lost
(DIR) Post #AJz7zySguesVRtDsum by urusan@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T17:39:41Z
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@wuwei Letters often don't last, we only have what people hoarded and archived.
(DIR) Post #AJzDmZcKZY34M5j19c by deightonrobbie@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T18:44:28Z
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@urusan Only if they are 10 seconds or shorter, because that will be the average future humans' attention span.
(DIR) Post #AJzG7UDs1YDDc8NqxU by skeletonadventure@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T19:10:41Z
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@urusan I think digital data just won't last that long. If it doesn't end up being deleted when a server host shuts everything down, then it will die from bit rot in a few short decades. It has to be actively maintained.
(DIR) Post #AJzXtGAZH8B39KClcG by splatt9990@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T22:29:47Z
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@urusan @wuwei yeah but a letter sitting in someone's attic doesn't require operating a multi-million dollar datacenter to keep existing. If in the future, Google and Facebook die and their services shut off, all of those posts will be effectively deleted.
(DIR) Post #AJzZSjDLNa2hJsyoQC by urusan@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T22:47:24Z
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@splatt9990 @wuwei Google and Facebook's datacenters aren't the only places storing this data.I'm not saying there's no problem here, the historical record will be fragmentary due to data losses, as well as data gatekeeping which prevents archiving activities.I'm just saying that none of this is really new. Letters get lost and thrown out. Hard drives crash and other storage media degrades. All archiving comes down to active work (or luck).
(DIR) Post #AJzbwovGv4PFcW0HgG by splatt9990@fosstodon.org
2022-05-30T23:15:16Z
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@urusan @wuwei well I guess that's my point. With digital information, no information will survive very long without active archiving efforts. The "lucky find" of a big box of letters that turn out to be some unknown cache of Abraham Lincoln's personal correspondence isn't going to happen with digital data. If a random hard drive is discovered in 100 years from now, the chances it'll be readable at all is almost nil.