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Is stuff online worth saving?

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128 points Brajeshwar | 1 comments | 17 Dec 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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nilamo ◴[21 Dec 24 15:22 UTC] No.42480153[source]▶
Personally, I like that the internet is ephemeral. It matches real life in that way. I would rather see the internet as a means of connecting people over large distances (across space, Mars, etc), maintaining 20,000 copies of every irrelevant thing is just silly.
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qwertox ◴[21 Dec 24 15:28 UTC] No.42480182[source]▶
> Personally, I like that the internet is ephemeral.

It is not. It is only for us normal people. But the companies which log our lives in order to then capitalize on it, for them the internet is not ephemeral. They have copies of videos, pages, podcasts, whatever it is what can be found there.

Why would you want those companies to know more about yourself than you do?

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1. zamadatix ◴[21 Dec 24 16:00 UTC] No.42480386[source]▶
Archive.org or Google can cache more of the internet than I do while still having the majority of the content be ephemeral.

I'd also hazard to guess most people in this camp would want these companies to also not store these things the same as they don't want people to.