• Echo Dot
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      19 hours ago

      People like to act as if archiving has never been a thing until about a year ago at which point it was suddenly invented and is now a threat in some nebulous way.

      • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        34 hours ago

        If a foreign Dictatorship’s military op wants to know every facet of your life, then you can be damn sure it’s a threat.

      • @hamsterkill
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        127 hours ago

        It’s not that it’s a threat, it’s that there’s a difference between archiving for preservation and crawling other people’s content for the purpose of making money off it (in a way that does not benefit the content creator).

        • archomrade [he/him]
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          -66 hours ago

          crawling other people’s content for the purpose of making money off it (in a way that does not benefit the content creator).

          You’re describing capitalism there, bud