psycrow@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit
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1 year agoIt’s about time that people understood that “Everything on the internet lasts forever” is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset. Now those big Web 2.0 sites everyone thought would dominate the internet forever are dying, and the only thing saving what was on those websites (the internet archive) is being constantly sued by greedy publishers.
TL;DR: The lead dev is German and had no idea at the time that toot was American slang for farting, he thought it was just an elephant/mastodon noise.