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This is very recent, however this does feel like a picture future generations should see.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
-- John Abernathy
After some discussion with the other mods, they suggested that this pic be left up for its importance, but a rule for a 'hard' age limit be implemented for all posts going forward. I preferred the flexibility of not having a hard limit when I took over this comm, but this seems the least troublesome option given the circumstances. This post will remain, but all future posts must be at least 10 years old.
Counter argument. There’s plenty of other communities for this post. Leaving it up is saying it is so important it has already made history. This is the first I’m seeing this post.
Leaving it up, in this case, is less an assertion of its historicity so much as its importance (important insofar as we're living through a fascist fucking regime) and that there was, strictly speaking, no prior rule mandating any age for photos.
Lmao what
The comm is meant for history, not current events.
History is what we make it, by the time you read this reply it will already be the past.
Even in my professional experience as an archaeologist there's a lot of scholary debate on when something becomes historic or archaeological. There's many that do support that definition to simply be anything that is not the present in the most literal sense.
This is to avoid the bias of arbitrarily setting when history begins.
Hope this makes sense it's a bit late here and I'm not gonna lie I'm a bit worn out from reading reports
History is here used in reference to events which took place a considerable amount of time in the past. Yesterday is not history by this common usage; the title of HistoryPhotos uses this very common and widely understood connotation of the term 'history'.
Right but the issue is when that line is arbitrarily drawn. For example think back to Covid. We can't argue it wasn't a significant event, but at this point the pandemic and it's restrictions are in the past. That's a period of time people remember, but it's not a daily part of life. Sure the disease still exists, but the mass testing sites, mandatory masking, the empty towns, etc. are all things of the past.
And yet that began only a little less than 6 years ago. I would argue that period fits many of the criteria of a historic event, even if it was so recent.
Anyway, I'm not even saying all of this to change your policy. I've just always found it an interesting piece of theory. There are plenty of other communities where one can go to see recent images. I just like discussing how we view and define history. Especially when it comes to assigning an arbitrary cutoff
Where do you think history comes from?
You came from your mom but that doesn’t mean i want to find you in my bed.
You know you don’t have to pay per Lemmy community right? There are many others.
Then name it Old-ass-Photos!