I think archiving sites such as reddit is very important, and I’m glad that it’s happening. And yet here I am on Lemmy, a perfect opportunity where I could almost effortlessly archive the entire social media site, including every single post, every comment, every edit, every deletion, and I basically have zero drive to do so. Not that I would be likely to do it anyway, but I seriously find it interesting that I do not even want to at all.
Am I? Are you?
I think for me, it’s because it’s sort-of (though not!) self-archiving.
If a site has a reasonable amount of popularity and subscriptions, it would take that site going down, plus all the sites that communicated with it, for the data to be fully lost.
Not to mention that a lot of the sites are run by reasonably altruistic people, who are more likely to hand over than just shutter.
A fair point!
