https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/ The Packbats' Weblog - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:02:13 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios packbat personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/17127286/244784 https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/336887.html Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:02:13 GMT https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/336887.html <p>rewatching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM">Devine Lu Linvega's Strange Loop talk about computing and sustainability</a> and thinking about the one deleted tweet they mentioned</p> <p>I think Twitter, Mastodon, the microblogging Fediverse, they are utterly unsuited to be archives - they are all networks in the moment, conversational spaces with just enough persistence that you can catch up on what someone said yesterday, maybe last week if you're determined</p> <p>and you can download your archive but it's just a huge mess - it's not sorted or connected, you can only find a thing if you already know what it is, and you might never find the context</p> <p>that's part of why we are starting to repost things on our dreamwidth blog</p> <p>sometimes we want the things we say to last more than a week</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=336887" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/336887.html indiepocalypse.social reposts read time: 10 seconds link time: substantial thoughts blogs fediverse meta internet public 0