Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> The way this is framed makes it impossible to answer this without making us look like a fool. </p><p>But, as someone in the same boat and with no access to 2023 and prior we'll just answer in earnest. Yes we do. Nothing good comes from the before times, and the few things worth archiving, projects and other long form documentation has been duly archived. The rest of the conversations are, like this one, spontaneous opinions that are somehow framed by everyone else as antagonistic.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@zanagb" class="u-url mention">@<span>zanagb</span></a></span> (yes.)</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@zanagb" class="u-url mention">@<span>zanagb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> So I apologize if this is speaking for wq but it seems to me wq is saying "this is how i use post history" and you are saying "you shouldn't use post history this way". I use post history the way wq does, so this feels grody to me.</p><p>I'm willing to accept use cases other than mine are valid but i think my way of using it is also a valid use case</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rain" class="u-url mention">@<span>rain</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flyovercountry.social/@encthenet" class="u-url mention">@<span>encthenet</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@recursive" class="u-url mention">@<span>recursive</span></a></span> I realize that Dropbox, specifically, gives you a massive quota for almost no cost, but I don't feel like relying on a VC-subsidized service like that is sustainable</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rain" class="u-url mention">@<span>rain</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flyovercountry.social/@encthenet" class="u-url mention">@<span>encthenet</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@recursive" class="u-url mention">@<span>recursive</span></a></span> this would make me more comfortable to use Dropbox and similar file-sharing solutions</p><p>I was using my headmate's file share (that's Synology, but same idea as Dropbox) and once I, or maybe someone else in the household, put like half a terabyte of files into the wrong folder. it got backed up and noticeably increased the storage bill.</p><p>ever since I obsess over "did this go into the right folder or not?" when using that system because of the very direct costs involved</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@zanagb" class="u-url mention">@<span>zanagb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> do you feel the same way about your memory? because dissociative amnesia means, for me, that posts are the only memory I'll have for much of my life.</p><p>I *hate* people who assert that my memory should expire.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> Posts are not worthless, they are just not meant to last for eternity. If you want something to endure with time, write it down, long form. elsewhere.</p><p>Words should be able to be lost on the wind, and conversations should be allowed to expire. to let you be unburdened of the past, and let the things it held, be free once more.</p><p>If something specific needs to be preserved, it should be treated differently, as the exception, not the rule.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> many people have weird bad boundaries with regards to how permanent vs not their own posts are / should be vs those of others. like sure, if you want to auto delete after 6 weeks and don't care to ever revisit anything you said years ago, that's fine and your choice, but assuming that that's how *everyone* uses social media is like, borderline hostile. but it feels like a tacit assumption on mastodon and everyone has learned helplessness over big scary tech debt issues.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rain" class="u-url mention">@<span>rain</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@aburka" class="u-url mention">@<span>aburka</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@recursive" class="u-url mention">@<span>recursive</span></a></span> the problem is that I don't at all feel that Dropbox provides a great user experience, not for source control, not for anything else (and it's not like I think git is the pinnacle of human achievement either, I just find Dropbox unpleasant and avoid it as much as I can)</p>