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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
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That's not the threat.
The library of Alexandria wasn't destroyed by old age.
The politicians will decide things have to be sent down the memory hole, much like the palmpsest of Archimedes was reused for scripture.
i just spent about 20 minutes writing a thoughtful, engaging reply. it was a good three paragraphs. then i accidentally closed the tab. i just learned that lemmy doesn't give you one of those annoying "are you sure?" dialogs, and it doesn't restore what you wrote when you come back. oh well, lesson learned :|
main point i was going to engage with was: it's different now than it was back then. information is now ubiquitous and very easily shared. but it's also very easily manipulated. we're now entering a new challenge, where i don't think it'll be about erasing information insomuch as muddying the water to the point that no one knows what to trust. facetiously, you could consider it the "age of firehose" when they call it the "age of aquarius". i'm old enough to remember the analog days. what will it be like for people in two or three generations who have no footing in the "real world", so to speak?
(i wrote this in a text editor and then copied it over - gotta make that my new habit. i'm really disappointed, because i had a good stream of thought going for this one)
FireDragon has a scratchpad in the sidebar. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds like a great idea. That way, I don't have to switch to a text editor to compose anymore.
Mobile apps usually have a drafts section (boost at least has it). Web ui most likely doesn't, since it's pretty barebones and is much better as a clientside feature