All of it? On such short notice?

Well it’s not just the current records that need to be preserved, historical records matter too. And even non-top runs may still matter, for examples like the discovery of a new technique or glitch, or the first person to achieve it in a run.

If you’ve ever watched something like SummoningSalt’s world record progression documentaries, those are made possible by the fact that all of this footage is available for him to comb through. And we do need all of it, because who’s to say what could turn out to be important later that we’ll only realize is missing after it’s gone?

Even for a mass effort, there just isn’t enough time to grab everything for how suddenly this was announced.

Who has the space to archive all of speedrun.com’s leaderboards?

I’d imagine the bulk of this is speedruns. Those add up to a lot of hours worth of VODs, but they are absolutely worth keeping. As I’ve said in another comment above, speedrun.com is suddenly going to be a graveyard of dead links.

I’d love a future where everything is decentralized and federated. But in the here and now, it’s just not pragmatically feasible for any independent non-commercial service to challenge the sheer amount of bandwidth and infrastructure a service like Twitch needs. Look at how many competitors have already tried to take on Twitch and failed miserably, and those were commercial startups with VC money.

Furthermore, even in the utopian future where ActivityPub streaming takes over, I still wouldn’t want all this history to be lost. Like this is such a devastating blow to speedrun.com leaderboards, for example, so many records will now be dead links.

Those aren’t typically included in highlights.

I think what a lot of people are missing here is that this isn’t just raw VODs, those already do expire automatically. But the highlight function was explicitly supposed to be for long-term archival, Twitch told users to highlight anything they want saved, and now that rug is getting pulled out from under them.

VODs do expire automatically, but Twitch has explicitly said in the past that if you want to archive something, highlight it. Highlights WERE meant for storage. So this feels like they’re suddenly reneging on that.

A month’s notice just isn’t enough time to archive this much history.

speedrun.com leaderboards are going to be a wasteland of dead links. What do we do with records that get lost?

If they try to assault you on wakeup, just DP.

It’s not a problem that abandoned communities exist. If it’s dead, then it’s not like anything is happening over there in order to be a problem.

It is a problem that it’s hard to really get a new community off the ground, and that’s the root problem that causes all these ghost communities. People come here hoping to start up a community for their niche hobbies and fandoms, like they did on Reddit, but the userbase is still so low that there may not be anyone else here who shares enough of an interest in those topics. So the community soon dies off.

There’s not much that can be done about this unfortunately. Hopefully this will organically solve itself if/when the userbase grows to enough of a critical mass, but that’s a bit of a chicken/egg problem when it comes to attracting users to a platform without active communities for the topics they want to discuss.

I’m just summarizing.

Which means that’s an area where they could’ve tried to set themselves apart from Steam.

Because someone ignoring reality is often a negative.

“My LLM will simply never make a mistake ever”

I don’t believe you.

Because there’s a lot of shit to complain about, and it feels like things are getting steadily worse. Especially today when I’m watching the rise of fascism in real time, when I’m watching friends and family be persecuted by a push to make bigotry into law, and when it all feels like there’s nothing I can do about any of this because I’m just some guy.

Yes, I know that children are starving in Africa. No, pointing that out does not make me feel better.

This is genuinely harmful. LLMs will hallucinate, which means that using them as a substitute for reading the news will result in the spread of misinformation. And in an era where we see just how dangerous misinformation can be, I beg you to please not do this.

“95% accurate” means 5% lies, which is 5% too many.

What do you mean by “screwed”? I think the question needs to be more clearly defined before I can give an answer.

A lot of damage is going to be done. Things are going to get much worse before they get better. Some people are going to get killed.

But I don’t think this is the literal apocalypse. Life will continue. It’s going to be hard to rebuild and will take a long time, but we will rebuild as much as we can.

This is how propaganda works. Take something you want people to hate, and insist that it is equivalent to something people already hate.