@kensanata It seems very appropriate that I'm commenting on this thread halfway through your normal 8-week expiry time. :-)

Will this post stay up longer?

As late as yesterday, somebody linked to a 9 months old conversation that Ideas mentally referring to. I have on multiple occasions gone back to 2008-2010 to gauge and remind myself of conversations we had back then. People are talking about documenting Fediverse history. I have a year-old thread that I keep returning to to add little things and which will one day become the foundation of an HPR episode.

These things are all counter to what you are proposing.

It's possible that people overvalue permanence and should embrace the ephemeral, but at least to me, this is part of how we talk now. I mourn the (practical) loss of the archives of identi.ca, *.status.net, parlementum.net, microca.st, micro.fragdev.com and others.