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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Listen.. it's for.. archival and digital preservation purposes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

and we all have a white whale out there we wished we saved but can't remember what it was called and can't find it again, wishing we had saved it

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have faith in T H E C L O U D capitalist-laugh

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have faith in the internet continuing to exist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Until the walled garden method and tax write-offs remove such things from the internet and leave them entirely to the realm of archiving and piracy, if that.

Have you been paying attention to what Discovery and Netflix have been doing?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People with internet that frequently drops would be one guess of mine

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And even then, videos are constantly added and removed from the Internet. The offline spankbank is eternal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Datahoarders like me

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

well sometimes the network connection goes down