FediThing has moved!Feb 5, 2023

Reminder that whatever you store on an internet site will one day vanish, even if it's stored on the largest and richest site in the world:

"Myspace, the once mighty social network, has lost every single piece of content uploaded to its site before 2016, including millions of songs, photos and videos with no other home on the internet."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/18/myspace-loses-all-content-uploaded-before-2016

Please don't rely on internet services to exist forever, they will all disappear eventually.

Try to store copies of important stuff offline if you can. Music, video, photos etc can all be stored locally.

Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016

Faulty server migration blamed for mass deletion of songs, photos and video

The Guardian
Show threadShiny Amygdala, ph.DFeb 10, 2023
@FediThing is it true that all of it still exists as signals in space? Someone told me that before, and I couldn't find anything about that on Google search, not that I expect the search engine to have the answers, but...
Show threadFediThing has moved!

@ShinyAmygdala

Radio and TV transmissions theoretically still exist out in space, though they get weaker as they move onward.

But I don't think that applies to computer databases?

Feb 10, 2023 at 1:13pmWeb