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Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history (arstechnica.com)
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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 38 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

We have all got very accustomed to the notion that we can put content on a website and it will stay there forever, permanently available, as if that site somehow has an obligation to look after it. But they don't.

It sucks, and there will be a lot of stuff lost, but it's also good to have a reminder that if there's data you really care about, you need to look after that data yourself.

[–] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It seems like since my generation had "If you put something on the Internet it'll be there forever" drilled into us as kids, many of us feel entitled to "the internet" preserving our data for us. Most people don't realize how much labor and resource usage goes into preserving data forever.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 0 points 9 hours ago

Did you genuinely interpret that as a child to mean "If you put something on the Internet will be safe forever"?

As I'm sure you are now aware as an adult, the intended meaning is very much "If you put something on the Internet which is embarrassing to you or damaging to your reputation, then it will be around forever"

It's a warning that the things you don't want to stick around could end up being precisely the things which do.