Glen ℇ IveyMay 1, 2017
Parker Higgins

"Building Mastodon to be frozen"

https://parkerhiggins.net/2017/04/building-mastodon-frozen/

I'm thinking about how we can build archiving and preservation tools right into Mastodon — where the Fediverse presents some risk — and what other opportunities that might unlock.

May 1, 2017 at 12:23amWeb
Show threadkaniiniMay 1, 2017
@xor pls no. i don't want to lose opportunities because of some shit i said on the internet 10 years ago.
Show threadParker HigginsMay 1, 2017
@kaniini it doesn't seem like the solution to that problem is to not keep a record of anything people say, but your point is noted
Show threadHallå KittehMay 3, 2017
@xor

> Archiveteam heroics only go so far — designing for the long-term preservation of our spaces should be a priority.

YES.

I've also been thinking that a site that continually rendered a static version of itself, committed that to a repo and then redeployed itself at some reasonable rate, pruning the database as data was pre-rendered, could have great scalability and trivial post-mortem hostability.