Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.

  • @[email protected]
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    1411 months ago

    theoretically one couls create a lemmyverse archive that crawls the lemmyverse and subscribes to all communities it finds and archives all federation activities that it receives

    • Otter
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      411 months ago

      Would you even need to subscribe?

      Setting up an instance should probably work, unless other instances choose to defederate from it, I guess

      • @[email protected]
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        1211 months ago

        Instances only collect stuff from communities that have at least one subscriber on their sever.

        • LazaroFilm
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          311 months ago

          And it looks like it may only pull new posts and comments and not old archives.

            • LazaroFilm
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              111 months ago

              I think it federates it if a user comments… I think. Not sure.

              • @[email protected]
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                211 months ago

                according to the docs if you search a comment it will federate that comment, its direct ancestors, and the post it was made on. But not all the comments for that post

        • Otter
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          211 months ago

          Ah interesting, didn’t know that :)