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Re: "What to do about lost pages?"
Hello:
I feel slightly strange to see your post, since I didn't think anyone read my capsule. All the same, that was an article I used to link to. It is not my writing; it was originally created in the SCP community, but deleted when the author left the site.
gemini://tilde.pink/~eriounious/inoti.gmi Here is the link.
I apologize for taking it down. I'm glad that you liked it.
May 08 · 2 days ago
I think you aren’t that familiar with the web. A LOT of content ends up lost because it never makes it into Archive.org and people respect the author’s wishes not to copy.
Entire domains of knowledge have basically vanished. Try to learn about the BBS scene in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. Almost everything is gone from the web and the people who remember it are dying off.
Chinese FidoNet knowledge is going the same way. It was the first text-based mass communication system in China and it’s gone. I’ve been collecting bits and pieces of what I can find to preserve in my capsule.
There is so much being lost and not being preserved at all. If you care about something: copy it.
What to do about lost pages? — I'm relatively new to a web that is smol/self-hosted. I'm enjoying the experience, so thank you. I've run into an issue (feature?), and wonder how you all dealt with it: Ephemerality. There is content on the fedi/smol web that could be lost forever. On the www, there's quite a bit of redundancy. If I can't find the article/story I'm looking for on one site, a quick search reveals multiple places that it's been backed up. I can't really think of many things that...
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