After the Muskification of Twitter, large Mastodon servers going down, the Mastodon Migration and discussions in and around Indieweb, I’ve concluded:
1. Not everything has to stay online forever.
2. If something is on my own site *and* a social network, the main site is the canonical one.
3. I don’t need to keep extra copies of things I already have.
So, new approach to this site (and the networks it archives)
* I’m removing a lot of duplicates from Twitter etc. (Reading Les Mis is almost all bits that I incorporated into articles.)
* I don’t need to keep duplicates here. This includes crappy phone pics posted on Instagram/Twitter before I posted the good pics on Flickr or my blog.
* Canonical pages on my site can link directly to the remote copies or plugs (potentially picking up replies via bridgy), in which case I don’t need to keep a copy here.
* There’s a lot of stuff I don’t really care about keeping, or that no longer matters because it’s a fragment of a conversation with someone whose account has closed.
In short: This only needs to keep copies of things I actually want to keep, and then only if I don’t have them somewhere else more “permanent” like hyperborea.org or kvibber.com.
Update (1/26): I’ve been deactivating and/or majorly clearing out my Twitter accounts, currently planning to keep only KelsonV and SpeedForce, and those only ephemeral. I’ll continue to clear up the duplicates and no-longer-interesting/useful posts from here, and move some of them over to K2R. As for SpeedForce, I’ll probably do the same with a few of the older posts and bring some others in here.