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[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)
[โ€“] LemmyWinks666@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Listen.. it's for.. archival and digital preservation purposes.

[โ€“] jcit878@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

and we all have a white whale out there we wished we saved but can't remember what it was called and can't find it again, wishing we had saved it

[โ€“] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have faith in T H E C L O U D capitalist-laugh

[โ€“] bagend@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have faith in the internet continuing to exist.

[โ€“] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

Until the walled garden method and tax write-offs remove such things from the internet and leave them entirely to the realm of archiving and piracy, if that.

Have you been paying attention to what Discovery and Netflix have been doing?

[โ€“] jaye@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People with internet that frequently drops would be one guess of mine

[โ€“] mp3@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And even then, videos are constantly added and removed from the Internet. The offline spankbank is eternal.

[โ€“] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

well sometimes the network connection goes down

[โ€“] TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Datahoarders like me