"Is there something we can do to create permanent histories of fandoms online?"
This is an interesting question, and I think attempts have been made to do this through wikis and whatnot, but I also believe that fundamentally the answer is no because nothing online can truly be something I consider permanent. Websites can collapse or get bought out from under users at any time (looks at cursed no longer a bird website). The most established online edifices are only quasipermanent at best. It might be a long time before the collapse, but it will come...
Which is deeply disheartening to think as I have a lot of my life chronicled on Dreamwidth, and Livejournal before that. But that's kind of a case in point: I moved to Dreamwidth because Livejournal effectively, if not literally, collapsed when it was bought out.
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Date: 2025-01-05 08:16 am (UTC)This is an interesting question, and I think attempts have been made to do this through wikis and whatnot, but I also believe that fundamentally the answer is no because nothing online can truly be something I consider permanent. Websites can collapse or get bought out from under users at any time (looks at cursed no longer a bird website). The most established online edifices are only quasipermanent at best. It might be a long time before the collapse, but it will come...
Which is deeply disheartening to think as I have a lot of my life chronicled on Dreamwidth, and Livejournal before that. But that's kind of a case in point: I moved to Dreamwidth because Livejournal effectively, if not literally, collapsed when it was bought out.