I’m not sure how practical/sustainable of a project this would be, but I feel that it could possibly be a useful project in the future if instances begin to purge old content due to storage constaints. The archiving service could store all the data using Object storage to archive it in read only. That way, at least people can still view old content in the possible scenario of rampant data loss across the Fediverse.
But why? If you want something to be more permanent you save it or host the content yourself. Social Media should be considered volatile and not be a knowledge base.
Forums are an invaluable source of information for countless purposes. Even extremely old forum posts can be a life-saver.
Forums aren’t really social media though.
And Lemmy really isn’t either. Just like old reddit, it’s more forum than it is social media.
But on that note, forums are a form of social media.
Something like this would definitely be useful.
If you ever find out let me know, I’ve some GDPR and right to be forgotten requests to write if anyone is archiving things I expect to be fire and forget.
GDPR and right to be forgotten for an anonymous account?
IP addresses and user names are personalized info according to the GDPR.
anyone doing that would risk a visit from law enforcement very quickly. There’s some vile stuff in the Fediverse.
How does archive.org manage this?
They remove illegal content as soon as they notice it and have staff and a legal team to deal with law enforcement agencies.
Sounds like a fun project 🤔
