Now I'm going to have to dig through @stux's posts to figure out his perspective on what happened.

I bet that Seth Abramson did something ill-conceived.

Seth Abramson wasted so much time—and words—on a whole lot of moral panic.

Oh no. You can get banned.

That's never happened anywhere, ever, in the history of the Internet.

What actually gets me is that Tila Tequila is not an anomaly. So many people of my generation (and older) have followed her arc.

Hell, Q Anon is full of Tila Tequilas.

If you want to know how crazy the '00s were, just look at the life of Tila Tequila.

She went from porn star to Queen of Myspace to a "bisexual" reality TV star (she now claims she wasn't bi) to literal Nazi to flat earther.

@Jain I disagree. Ensuring content is available forever is an important goal, and something web developers should work towards.

Just because it's not a reality now doesn't mean it shouldn't be reality in the future.

I've already mentioned one possible way to make archiving the Internet easier. Create a hybrid protocol of HTTP and BitTorrent, have every library on the planet with their own archive.org instance (or something similar).

@Jain I agree, certain aspects of the Internet should be ephemeral, and that is by design.

But generally speaking *culture* should be archived.

@Jain This isn't about whether creators have back-ups. It's about everyone else having access to a permanent archive.

@chidgey Your local backups are the least of my concerns.

@pixelherodev But I'm not being hyperbolic whatsoever.

Old Edison recordings are on YouTube.

Films by Andy Warhol are on YouTube.

Jean-Luc Godard's debut film "Une femme coquette" -- long presumed lost -- was available first on YouTube.

That's just the old stuff.

Think about all the new material made for the past 17 years, often by amateur filmmakers, that's *only* available on YouTube.

Further, to say 99% of stuff on YouTube is "trash" is just plain elitism.

@calchan My personal well-being isn't the point.

@mikolaj The problem with P2P is persistence. But that is also an opportunity waiting to be solved.

@mikolaj This is true—but what I'm imagining is dedicated seeders who archive the entire Internet, spread across the world, built for redundancies.

@vertigo I forgot about it. And therein also demonstrates the danger of using Big Tech to archive data.

@ocdtrekkie How?

@ocdtrekkie That's missing the point.

If YouTube goes down, what happens to the music videos, the animations, the documentaries, the sketch comedy, the video game walkthroughs, etc.?

Like it or not, YouTube has become the place for archiving all audio and video.

Which is why it's also scary that this one site hosts so much data.

On a better Internet, YouTube would be redundant.

@vfrmedia I feel this on so many levels.

@polychrome @anji Okay, but hear me out. What if archive.org was decentralized, and every library and university in the world ran an instance?

@anji I've used IPFS for three years, and I've yet to see broad adoption apart from crypto.

If something like archive.org were stored on IPFS, then that would be a game changer.

One reason I hope PeerTube takes off is because:

1. It's decentralized
2. It uses a P2P delivery system

That's one step in the right direction -- but I hope other social media networks follow their lead.

Actually, I kind of wish there was a universal P2P protocol that was a mixture of HTTP and BitTorrent.

That alone would fix so many problems with the Internet!