Excluding existing archiving sites, do you have an expectation or think that data stored on lemmy should be permanent? E.g last 20+ years. Would it matter if old inactive content was culled? If you had the ability to export data if a sever was due to go down, what would you actually do with it.
I think it’s important that the data will last. So many useful info can be found at threads, even at day-to-day threads.
I have to agree, Reddit has helped me find answers to questions that other places don’t have.
Reddit legit became my primary search engine when I was searching about privacy concerns (I’m aware of the irony, but it helped a ton).