• @mholiv
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    29 months ago

    I want to make a distinction between scraping and archiving here.

    You don’t need to do anything to ensure your content is “scrapeable”. Just post your content on the fediverse and it is available to scrape. Anyone can do it. This being said unless someone goes out of their way to save what they scrape eventually as your content ages the only copy will be on the server that it originates from. I believe all posts are stored on the instance where the community lives. I believe all comments are the same the difference being that your instance also stores a local copy of your comment. I could be wrong there though.

    Archiving is different. Archiving is providing a long term store of your content. That is harder. If you run your own instance the comments you put on the communities that live on your instance are safe. Anywhere else, you are subject to that instance just dying or selling out. You would need a specialized tool to take a “snapshot” or something. Maybe adding the post thread to archive.org could work. It’s messy in any case.