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What we’ve lost: The MySpace war files and the impact of a digital 'Dark Age' (spectrumlocalnews.com)
submitted 2 years ago by SureIsHandOutside@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 54 points 2 years ago (12 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 12 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Ah interesting, didn't know that :)

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah pre-federation stuff would need another more complicated solution

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years 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

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