• Echo Dot
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    5 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.

    • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 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]@midwest.social
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        2 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