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@funn@lemy.lol to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Online Content Is Disappearing

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Online Content Is Disappearing

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A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
  • @Jode@midwest.social
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    198•1 year ago

    The biggest crime against shared knowledge ever committed is photobucket fucking off with the pictures in every “how to fix this car problem” forum post.

    • @PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world
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      101•1 year ago

      There’s some old Reddit posts like this too. Advice threads where the person who posted a solution went back and overwrote their comments during the boycott last year. I know why they did it but we still lost some information in the grand scheme of things.

      • @infeeeee@lemm.ee
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        Most of reddit was already archived before: https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/

        • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          30•1 year ago

          Also by the Archive Warrior project: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/reddit/#show-all

      • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        0•1 year ago

        And that is why I criticized the decisions every time I read about it. Every time I got mixed responses but ultimately got a higher downvote ratio.
        Also a reason I participate(d) in the archive warrior reddit project.

    • Zoidsberg
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      And all the “Thanks! Took two minutes to fix after seeing your post” comments just to rub it in.

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