I'm doing my part

I've always thought that argument only works as long as data is free or close to free. Once it incurs a cost, I think copies end up getting removed. I think it's fundamentally flawed to say the internet will never forget.

Ironically this is original data we are viewing now.

Well, for thot pics, there’s always more jpeg. For everything else, there’s lossless data formats.

Good luck finding the raw original video of anything these days. The amount of 3gp an rm files that used to float around compared to the reactionary emoji text bs you see today. Get off my lawn.

Trying not to spoil it but this is a plot point in a relatively famous, relatively recent sci-fi book, where the characters need to record a warning that lasts for millennia. They end up carving it into the rock of Pluto since all other data mediums would fail over that timespan.

Only downside is that only data that people care about right now is being saved. But what seems useless now might become valuable in the future. It's hard to grasp how much data has been forgotten on some old computers, or some CDs, or websites that have gone dark.

About that... we could record someone's every word and different people would read entirely different things into it. Consider how strangers have reacted to your own internet comments.

Needs more jpeg.

Storing data for decades or even centuries is a difficult thing. But the problem isn't the storage it's the data format!

Who knows if a person 300 years from now has a program that can open .png or .jpg? Or the dreaded .doc and .xls that even Microsoft has problems with today. This poor future fellow probably won't have the capatibilities and might need a few years or decades to develop a reader app.

I like how /u/gofsckyourself didn’t show up with a higher quality version.

See, that's why I started using JPEG-XL for long-term storage. Apart from being better in every aspect for lossless and near-lossless still images than any competitor, the generation loss even over 1000 lossy save and load cycles is negligible.