I remember someone posted a 4chan thread here about intelligence, cognition, and ability to sympathize.

@matrix was it you?

@newt Yeah, I think it was a thread about low iq people not being able to understand conditional hypotheticals

@Morghur @matrix Thanks mate! I too need to start saving this crap. So many good posts are lost.
@newt @matrix I try to do the same. I will have to start classifying all the crap i find here. Inmensely good images and enlightening posts
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I have something like that partially written, but I haven't touched it in over a year so I don't feel like studying my code again.
I wanted to write a scraper and a search engine that would double as an archive.
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@matrix @Morghur what I’m worried about is how this software enables easy abuse. Imagine someone discussing personal matters and people just scraping entire threads to share for shits and giggle.

Granted, if you post personal stuff on fedi, you kinda have it coming. And yet, there’s plenty to go wrong here.
@newt @matrix @Morghur If you public post things you shouldn't have public posted you're going to have a bad time. No need for instances to add archives of themselves, the instance *is* the archive. sjw's posts from 3+ years ago are on here if you feel like scrolling back that far. Archiving with an external tool via the API is already done, I think it's called fediarchiver? Can't remember. But it's just json anyway so curl plus a small amount of bash is sufficient you don't have to wrangle arbitrary html or anything.
cc @Telvannichad sorry didn't notice that you weren't tagged in that branch when I replied
@roboneko @matrix @Morghur instances go offline left and right. What I'm thinking is more like shareable fedi bookmarks but with content attached.
@newt @matrix @Morghur Well you just have to post your copy somewhere, or just send them a link to the thread on your instance. Remote posts you've seen will be on your instance. (Unless you're trimming old ones?) Remote media is what might go missing but that's probably a disk space issue for most people anyway.

p has been talking about ipfs with revolver so that would presumably solve the "it's only on my instance how can I export it from the db" problem.
@newt >instances go offline left and right

speaking as someone who has been caught up in some pretty high-profile leaks in the past, data impermanence is not a bad thing whatsoever

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@knhy @matrix @Morghur @newt Data impermanence is a myth, it just means you aren't personally aware of the remaining copies. If you public post it's a safe assumption it will be around forever. You can still browse old usenet posts from the mid 90s for example.
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