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Farcaster

Artist onchain since 2018 https://obxium.com

We should do a better job explaining.

I don't think most people care about old casts? It's a 5-10% of users that really care about preserving everything.

I’m one of the 5-15 and this stresses me out. 

People might not care now, but nobody knows how valuable a fully archived Farcaster will be.  Undoubtedly very valuable and possibly most to people who aren’t thinking of it. 

I’m pretty much in this space for watching history unfold.

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My statement isn’t about an unwillingness to pay for it (depending on price). 

Archives from a significant digital town square will be of public interest some day. Web.archive is a public good because what’s happening here will be of public interest

also in the 5 - 15% and am willing to pay more for storage tbh

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The thing about archiving is it’s gotta be everything. Who knows what will be important in 20 years. 

I don’t know if that’s affordable or not but certainly willing to pay if I can. 

If you look at web.archive, it’s a public good. Seems like something a separate DAO should be doing and keeping it accessible

You can use @farchiver to download everything if you’d like. Could do this periodically to ensure everything is archived.

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Digital hoarders unite. I have every single text conversation I’ve ever had archived.

Also in the 5-15%. Like @tomato.eth I think the precent is much higher. There will come a time when people will care deeply about digital legacy. Something will help each of us curate that. It is what will live on beyond our physical form.

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Been thinking about this for a while but w arweave clients

this is a good use case for the Filecoin network.

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The nerd in me would love daily or weekly or monthly snapshots of everything. Because you don’t know what will be important down the line. 

I think web archive takes user archive snapshots of individual tweets or accounts going back to a certain date.

Would you want to store just your information or have n number of degrees of interaction as well?

If FC continues to grow it will be like the deletion of geocities, and very few left scrambling to try and preserve years worth of culture. I don’t think users are very often reliable data hosts. We need orgs, institutions, museums…

Relevant :

If FC continues to grow it will be like the deletion of geocities, and very few left scrambling to try and preserve years worth of culture. I don’t think users are very often reliable data hosts. We need orgs, institutions, museums…

Relevant :

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-lost-cities-of-geo/

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I wanna push back on “willing”. Plenty of people are willing to pay for things but unable. I think this falls firmly in a public good category

it is valuable but the question is whether the incentives are aligned so that those whom it’s valuable to are willing to pay for it

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I don’t know. I’m not sure what that involves/ how it would work

Would archive nodes solve this for you? Even if they're not decentralized (could very easily make them so)

I'm also in the 5-15%, and I think the real percentage is much higher than that.

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Would be cool if people could pay to archive on Filecoin or something.

Whole point of Grok being possible and more emotionally superior compared to ChatGPT or Gemini is because it can understand emotions from tweets/conversations over years. So, Yes we need past casts for sure.

🙋‍♂️ 5-15% reporting for duty. Shoe box 📦 in tow.

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Want all of Farcaster free and queryable? Tired of trying to run replicators? We've got a BigQuery dataset for you 😉 

https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?project=glossy-odyssey-366820&ws=!1m4!1m3!3m2!1sglossy-odyssey-366820!2sfarcaster

It's far from perfect, but this free, permanent archive concept is one of the main reasons we built this. Would love any thoughts on how we could make this a more official public good

For instance, adding columns for `pruned_at` is on our short term list

It's far from perfect, but this free, permanent archive concept is one of the main reasons we built this. Would love any thoughts on how we could make this a more official public good

For instance, adding columns for `pruned_at` is on our short term list

https://warpcast.com/runninyeti.eth/0xd02f9bc1

Same. I thought it was weird seeing a bunch of my older posts from a year or so ago had partially disappeared 👻 the images gone!