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the soon to be lost internet media by roboLobo

Just a quick upset journal: I'm putting out my personal 'screw you' to Google and Twitter for these ridiculous 'inactivity policies' on deleting old accounts and their associated content.

There's just so much wrong with this and the things I'm going to lose from this is immense... Even more for other people, who have accounts from deceased family/friends/inspirations who cannot post anymore.
Screw this 'log on every 30 days' crap from Twitter especially. Youtube's 2 years is also driving me up a wall, this summer I'm going to need to archive a lot of stuff from the late 2000s early 2010s before Google merged with Youtube because I have no idea what happens to unaffiliated channels from 2007.

All because multi billion dollar companies can't keep up hosting that poor poor data from more than a couple years ago... Oh wait, they can, they just want to push social media addiction and to constantly login and consume more. You can't even sort by oldest videos on a youtube channel anymore, long term content with value you worked hard on? What's that? Twitter never cared from an archive view and definitely never will.

I'm sick of the state of social media and video-art sharing sites. I can't even find words to express it here. Just keep this in mind in the coming years, it's only going to spread to more sites.

ugh.

the soon to be lost internet media

roboLobo

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    they wants us to be chronically online,,

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      want* 😭💀

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    This sounds terrible, I didn’t know they’re doing this. About a month ago, I did start saving art files (my own and others) onto flash drives for the sake of “just in case it disappears for whatever reason” because it’s been twice that things that I’ve really enjoyed have suddenly disappeared due to the personal dissatisfaction of the artists. I think I should start saving videos too then. A bit more effort to do so, compared to just saving images though.

    Fun little surprise was that the 5-pack of flash drives I bought were advertised as 16 GB each but were actually 32 GB each, and I got them on a sale at the time. Should have gotten another one…