I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies...

"I'm only on Mastodon now" is the "I have gone vegan" of social media

@mcnees I've seen this allll over the place. Even if Twitter does collapse, they'll probably be reposting it for years to come. Similar to the strange afterlife of popular Vines.

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.