Hard problems in social media archiving

Good that they actually raise the question of users not wanting to be archived. I think the semi-ephemerality of channel based systems like Discord is increasingly popular partly because of various sorts of "cancel wars", well- or ill-intentioned capture and use of posts out of context.

	▲	digiown 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Semi-ephemeral is the wrong way to view Discord et al. It's only that way if you actively remove your messages after a while, but they have made it as difficult as possible. Though the fact that it's hard to archive too, perhaps make it more ephemeral on the whole, since few people will have a backup when do you get around to remove it.

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zoobab 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HTTP is not designed for mirroring.

FTP was easy to mirror with "lftp> mirror -p".

Easy mirroring and archive level maintenance (let's say the network always maintain 3 copies at minimum) should be built-in the "social media" protocols.

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binarykult 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well if only we still can archive Instagram full-profiles, for example ...