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Capitalism has no interest in preservation except where it is profitable. Thinking about the long-term future, archaeologist's success and acting on it is not profitiable.
Its not just capitalism lol
Preserving things costs money/resources/time. This happens in a lot of societies.
This is a very good point and one that is not discussed enough. Archive.org is doing amazing work but there is absolutely not enough of that and they have very limited resources.
The whole internet is extremely ephemeral, more than people realize, and it's concerning in my opinion. Funny enough, I actually think that federation/decentralization might be the solution. A distributed system to back-up the internet that anyone can contribute storage and bandwidth to might be the only sustainable solution. I wonder.if anyone has thought about it already.
I'd argue that it can help or hurt to decentralize, depending on how it's handled. If most sites are caching/backing up data that's found elsewhere, that's both good for resilience and for preservation, but if the data in question is centralized by its home server, then instead of backing up one site we're stuck backing up a thousand, not to mention the potential issues with discovery
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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