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  • ISMETA@lemmy.ziptotest@lemmy.mlsdfasdf
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if there are any technical reasons with maybe ActivityPub that old posts might have to eventually be archived?

    But I enjoy the idea of never archiving or at least keeping posts open for a long time like 10 years. I’m not sure why but there is something special aboaut old threads being revived or kept alive. I had this one comment on Reddit where I purchased a product and months and years later people would still respond asking if it was still working or if I’d still recommend it. This I is like “The internet never forgets” but in a good way.







  • I’m incredibly unqualified to even think about how one might get faster random access times but i was imagining sci-fi solutions like looped tape so that you are always at most 1/2 of the tape length away from the point you want to reach, or the tape equivalent of multi actuator hard drives where there’s be multiple independent tapes in one cassette in a sort of RAID style thing but maybe instead of (only) striping data could be stored on multiple tapes in different places to always have one tape that is at a position close to the data you want. Or a system where the same tape has multiple read heads applied to it in distant places.