Gregory's Server
Thank you!
> What surprises me is the implied norm of a social communication network that is coherent with perfect history,
Really good point; totally agree. I guess that this comes from commercial "Big Social" and is unreasonable as an expectation outside the terms of association there. *And I guess I wouldn't want to overstate it there either.
@kdriscoll might have ideas, either his book This Modem World or other resources
@hrheingold
@inquiline @yetiinabox @hrheingold Yeah! The promise of "perfect history" has always been an illusion of digital media even if some systems get closer than others (e.g., there is no perfect history of Twitter, despite centralization).
Plus, features like the kill file on USENET or bozo filter on The WELL mean that there is no universal user experience to reconstruct.
I am also reminded of @jessogden's work investing what gets saved in web archives, how, and why: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2021.1985835
@inquiline @yetiinabox @hrheingold Yeah! The promise of "perfect history" has always been an illusion of digital media even if some systems get closer than others (e.g., there is no perfect history of Twitter, despite centralization).
Plus, features like the kill file on USENET or bozo filter on The WELL mean that there is no universal user experience to reconstruct.