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What we’ve lost: The MySpace war files and the impact of a digital 'Dark Age' (spectrumlocalnews.com)
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Countless firsthand accounts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have disappeared across the last decade, and it may speak to larger issues with the historical record in the digital age.

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[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it looks like it may only pull new posts and comments and not old archives.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah pre-federation stuff would need another more complicated solution

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it federates it if a user comments.. I think. Not sure.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

according to the docs if you search a comment it will federate that comment, its direct ancestors, and the post it was made on. But not all the comments for that post