<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>