Subj : Resurgence of non-mainstr
To : Boraxman
From : Kaelon
Date : Sun May 01 2022 02:11 pm
Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
By: Boraxman to Kaelon on Sun May 01 2022 04:07 pm
> It is like we are living in a new Dark Age. The old websites have
> dissappeared,and
> with Social Media, forum discussions are missing now too from web searched.
> It's fine for Google not to index general discussion (I'd prefer it
> doesn't), but when the group on Facebook is about how to fix hardware, and
> people are sharing solutions, its good to be able to find these.
>
> Facebook is terrible for that, which is why people keep posting the same
> questions over and over again.
Completely agree with you. Web forums have always been pretty terrible for archival purposes, and even with public benefit organizations, like the Internet Archive and its Way Back Machine, findability and discovery are basically impossible and there are always limits.
The Dark Age of Social Media has with it very steep prices, but it does seem like there is, at the very least, a genuine awakening to the dangers and the loss of human knowledge that this poses. You are so right that people keep asking the same questions over and over again, and whether it's Facebook or Reddit or, even worse, Discord groups, it's impossible for people to build a collective knowledge to advance awareness.
-=- Kaelon -=-
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