Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.

  • Strawberry
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    theoretically one couls create a lemmyverse archive that crawls the lemmyverse and subscribes to all communities it finds and archives all federation activities that it receives

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      Would you even need to subscribe?

      Setting up an instance should probably work, unless other instances choose to defederate from it, I guess

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            yeah pre-federation stuff would need another more complicated solution

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                according to the docs if you search a comment it will federate that comment, its direct ancestors, and the post it was made on. But not all the comments for that post