• 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    how do you expect an archive to happen if they are not allowed to archive while it is still up.

    I don’t want them publishing their archive while it’s up. If they archive but don’t republish while the site exists then there’s less damage.

    I support the concept of archiving and screenshotting. I have my own linkwarden server set up and I use it all the time.

    But I don’t republish anything that I archive because that dilutes the value of the original creator.

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        59 minutes ago

        Shouldn’t that be the content creator’s prerogative? What if the content had a significant error? What if they removed the page because of a request from someone living in the EU requested it under their laws? What if the page was edited because someone accidentally made their address and phone number public in a forum post?

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          12 minutes ago

          Nah. It just lets slimy gits claim they never said XYZ, or that such and such a thing never happened. With as volatile a storage media as internet media, hard backups are absolutely necessary. Put it this way; would you have the same complaimt about a newspaper? A TV show? Post your opinion piece to a newspaper and it’s fixed in ink forever. Yet somehow you complain when that same opinion piece is on a website? Get outta here.