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Ruth [โ˜•๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“šโœ๐Ÿป๐Ÿงต๐Ÿชก๐Ÿต]'s posts Post Back to profile
Ruth [โ˜•๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“šโœ๐Ÿป๐Ÿงต๐Ÿชก๐Ÿต]

Thousands of archivists and librarians over here gesticulating *yes, finally, we've been saying this for a decade+*

Person realizing that the internet is not an archive, more like broadsides and pamphlets, the vast majority of content from 7 years ago is gone. And noting that online resources libraries shift to getting cut back means we're getting more loss.
31 Jan 2023 at 13:14 | Open on glammr.us
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Ruth [โ˜•๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“šโœ๐Ÿป๐Ÿงต๐Ÿชก๐Ÿต]

In some ways, maybe it's fine, but also maybe it's not. However the broadsides and pamphlets metaphor is a good one (and one I'm pretty sure I've heard at least one archivist use before)

31 Jan 2023 at 13:16 | Open on glammr.us
Ruth [โ˜•๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“šโœ๐Ÿป๐Ÿงต๐Ÿชก๐Ÿต]

And since the top of the thread is getting a lot of eyes, I'll reiterate the above, that 100% capture and preservation is not what librarians and archivists have all been wanting when they've made these observations.

Ephemerality can be good! Some things should come and go.

But the idea that things are online so they're stable and permanent and LESS volatile than a book has been... a real bane for a lot of us.

31 Jan 2023 at 13:57 | Open on glammr.us
Kye Fox

@platypus I have a PDF copy of a journal article from 1996 discussing the moral panic over bisexual women in lesbian spaces that almost perfectly tracks the moral panic over trans women in women's spaces. ('Bisexual Women and the "Threat" to Lesbian Space: Or What If All the Lesbians Leave?') Sometimes, like here, it's obvious a thing is worth preserving: it shows that if history doesn't repeat, it at least rhymes.

Other times it's hard to know. If you don't keep everything, there's no second chance if it turns out to be important later. It's just gone.

It's something I've struggled with as my capacity to store things and make them searchable falls behind my ability to accumulate and cull things that don't seem important in the moment.

@platypus I have a PDF copy of a journal article from 1996 discussing the moral panic over bisexual women in lesbian spaces that almost perfectly tracks the moral panic over trans women in women's spaces. ('Bisexual Women and the "Threat" to Lesbian Space: Or What If All the Lesbians Leave?') Sometimes, like here, it's obvious a thing is worth preserving: it shows that if history doesn't repeat, it at least rhymes.

31 Jan 2023 at 14:57 | Open on tech.lgbt
Dr. ๊™ฎtt0ยฐ Skrzyk

@platypus The potential of cascading layers of misinformation is astounding.

What original sources?

31 Jan 2023 at 16:22 | Open on hackers.town
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