Freely licensed works will be preserved a lot better because there will be more copies of them.
Likewise the fediverse is a step in that direction: this message will be federated to hundreds of servers so is more likely to survive longer than if I posted it to reddit.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Already a lot of stuff is becoming one harddrive failure away from being lost forever. Companies don’t care about preserving content, so it’s largely up to random people happening to have saved a copy of something for it to still exist at all.
belit_deg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And National Libraries and similar institutions around the world, for example www.nb.no/en/digital-preservation/