The Cardinals left some deeply ground-in anxiety over data loss (and loss of control over data).
That was back before anyone tried using social media, and being hyper aware of how transient and fragile records are is a major reason we aren't compatible with most social media platforms. Hell, the first forum anyone joined was disbanded less than a year later, and all the posts there were lost to time. Wayback can't get around security walls even if it's linked directly to a post.
Not actually owning your data, not having a reliable means to export it in a useful format, and the insecurity of posts or accounts being deleted by The Company on a whim with no notice or appeal - all no good. Social media doesn't give you the grace of a warning. We value records and information too much to keep putting that in a place where it may disappear without notice and be irrecoverable in ten years.
Is the Wayback Machine useful for saving specific Tumblr posts? That's one solution I could think of to have a reliable record on that platform.
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Date: 2022-08-15 08:44 pm (UTC)That was back before anyone tried using social media, and being hyper aware of how transient and fragile records are is a major reason we aren't compatible with most social media platforms. Hell, the first forum anyone joined was disbanded less than a year later, and all the posts there were lost to time. Wayback can't get around security walls even if it's linked directly to a post.
Not actually owning your data, not having a reliable means to export it in a useful format, and the insecurity of posts or accounts being deleted by The Company on a whim with no notice or appeal - all no good. Social media doesn't give you the grace of a warning. We value records and information too much to keep putting that in a place where it may disappear without notice and be irrecoverable in ten years.
Is the Wayback Machine useful for saving specific Tumblr posts? That's one solution I could think of to have a reliable record on that platform.
- Ezio (he/him)