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Myspace lost everything uploaded prior to 2016 in botched server move

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Guardian: Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016
Myspace, the once mighty social network, has lost every single piece of content uploaded to its site before 2016, including millions of songs, photos and videos with no other home on the internet.

The company is blaming a faulty server migration for the mass deletion, which appears to have happened more than a year ago, when the first reports appeared of users unable to access older content. The company has confirmed to online archivists that music has been lost permanently, dashing hopes that a backup could be used to permanently protect the collection for future generations.

More than 50m tracks from 14 million artists have been lost, including songs that led to the rise of the "Myspace Generation" cohort of artists, such as Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys and Yeasayer. As well as music, the site has also accidentally deleted pictures and videos stored on its servers.
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Myspace deleted 12 years' worth of music in a botched server migration

... On the upside, I suppose that means they probably no longer have your personal data?
The lesson to take home here I suppose is: Back up anything you wanna keep, and keep your backups viable... Nobodys going to do it for you without compensation.
 
I remember Myspace! Last time I tried to log in my profile didn't exist anymore. I wonder if that was a test run for this fuckup...
 
Jonen C said:
Back up anything you wanna keep, and keep your backups viable... Nobodys going to do it for you without compensation.
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Amen to that.

In addition to technical mishap, when corporations or even individuals shut down websites content is lost too. I recall, quite fondly, the forums of jumptheshark.com and counterfactual.net, both vanished. The former was purchased by TVguide, and the latter was shut down by the founder due to low user traffic and lack of interest.

While these examples are innocuous in the grand scheme of things, I am forced to wonder about websites that archive significant scientific, demographic or cultural data and do not, for whatever reason, have what I will call a "perpetuation plan". Those losses would be much more serious to society.

I recall, when I submitted my doctoral dissertation, wondering why there were so many requirements about the thread count of the paper and why I couldn't do it online. I was informed that paper is something librarians can be sure will last.
 
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Good. Nothing of value was lost. Now do the same thing to facebook and twitter.

We would all be a much healthier society if we just abandoned this experiment and went back to posting on SufficientVelocity.com
 
Estro said:
Ford would literally have an stroke if this site had a billion members, I'm pretty sure
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This site having a billion members would defeat the purpose of having sites like this - rather the ideal would be to re-atomize the social media into numerous smaller sites, possibly based on regional locale so as to maintain the interaction-with-people-from-IRL aspects. The goal here, I think, is to keep the online community within the confines of groups small enough to meaningfully moderate via human beings, because any bigger than that and you start to get problems.
 
Estro said:
Ford would literally have an stroke if this site had a billion members, I'm pretty sure
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Well he wouldn't have a billion members, we'd have as many people as would be interested in a thing like this, because everybody would just join the forum that was about the thing they liked, rather than everybody on the fucking planet all crowding onto a SINGLE platform that as far as I can tell is about nothing.
 
Candesce said:
But small enough to be moderated effectively - possibly moving target that that is - is clearly necessary.
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That means you get thousands, millions, of individual chambers. Some may allow differing viewpoints to meet and interact meaningfully, others will be echo chambers (though we see that in big monolithic social media platforms as well).
And for every chamber that is well moderated, how many will not be?

Smashing the monolithic social networks won't solve all issues. I doubt it will even solve the one issue. What it is, is adding in more points of failure. OTOH any single failure would be smaller.
 
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