I've seen a few Wayback links to comment threads in the modlog used as ban reasons (which is kinda genius since it puts things into context) but why do people do that outside of that reason?
For Sunshine out of the 17 only one is a direct save by a user (on November 10). All the others are automatic crawlers or captured via "outlinks" where not only the website (such as a post or the /all feed) is captured, but also everything it links to (at least in theory).
You can see how it was saved by going to the calendar overview and hovering over November 10 and then the hour, and above the calendar it will display the reason/source as "(why: save-page-now)"
Seven. Some of them are from National Library of Luxembourg, National Library of New Zealand, Finland Web Harvest, Custom Crawl Services, Archive Bot, and Archive Team.
Seems like some entities regularly do a massive crawl of websites in an effort to archive them.
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vaguerant@fedia.io · 27 pts · 1y
I don't think I understand what "screenshot" means in this context.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
I think they meant "snapshot".
m_f@discuss.online · 21 pts · 1y
8 captures, mostly from crawlers. One of them lists "NationalLibraryOfLuxembourg" as the "why", which is kind of amusing. Not sure why they'd care
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 1y
I'm probably going to get more thanks to this post!
ptz@dubvee.org · 15 pts · 1y
I've seen a few Wayback links to comment threads in the modlog used as ban reasons (which is kinda genius since it puts things into context) but why do people do that outside of that reason?
Tyoda@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
For Sunshine out of the 17 only one is a direct save by a user (on November 10). All the others are automatic crawlers or captured via "outlinks" where not only the website (such as a post or the /all feed) is captured, but also everything it links to (at least in theory).
You can see how it was saved by going to the calendar overview and hovering over November 10 and then the hour, and above the calendar it will display the reason/source as "(why: save-page-now)"
ptz@dubvee.org · 8 pts · 1y
Ah, gotcha. Thanks. I had assumed they were all user-saves and for malicious / petty reasons.
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y
Gotta keep you in check!
Irelephant@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
How many backups of your federated profile do you think there is?
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
Valmond@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
How does this work? Or like why? I feel like an idiot.
manucode@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 1y
15
manucode@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y
11 more for feddit.org/u/manucode@infosec.pub, 5 for lemmy.world/u/manucode@infosec.pub and 4 for lemmy.ml/u/manucode@infosec.pub but none for feddit.uk/u/manucode@infosec.pub
megane_kun@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Seven. Some of them are from National Library of Luxembourg, National Library of New Zealand, Finland Web Harvest, Custom Crawl Services, Archive Bot, and Archive Team.
Seems like some entities regularly do a massive crawl of websites in an effort to archive them.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 1y
Thats it we got you in our library now. Prepare to be archived.
megane_kun@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Yes please!
Irelephant@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
or archive.today/archive.ph/archive.is
flamingos@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 1y
21 baby!
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
One for each flamingo!
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
43!
OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1y
Not... 42? :-P
RandomVideos@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
I didnt know it was even possible to store 60415263063373835637355132068513997507264512000000000 snapshots
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
How do I check this
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 1y
You can input your url https://lemmy.ml/u/sharkfucker420 into https://archive.org/
I see 2 on yours!
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Thank you :)
callyral@pawb.social · 6 pts · 1y
3 that i saw immediately but im too lazy to check the page further
also holy crap did i join lemmy 2 years ago????
nutomic@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
111, nice
rustyfish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
countrypunk@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
15 times. Not bad.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
0, I am not interesting enough, hooray!
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
I have 16 times.
Irelephant@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
16?? I am not that interesting.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Man I don't wanna know. It'll push me to bring a recluse again.