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nilamo ◴[] 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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1. lxgr ◴[] No.42480539[source]
The problem is that not everything it has replaced was originally ephemeral.

In a the Internet is both too ephemeral (self-hosted blogs disappear, Youtube videos get taken down) and too persistent at the same time; I don't think that most Twitter posts of non-public figures would need to remain public forever by default, for example, and I don't think I need to mention various data breaches.

The Internet Archive somewhat mitigates the first issue, but it makes me pretty nervous that there's essentially just one organization doing what used to be much more distributed to various physical libraries.

For the second one, I hope we'll see better solutions (both technical and social) as the technology and our interactions with it mature.