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中文(ZH) 11 万个主题，真正归档下来的只有 49460 个。NodeLoc 有人把全站公开帖子做成了开源存档：79.5 万条帖子、2.54 GB，还顺手验证了缺口——抽样 600 个没收录的 ID，595 个返回 404，基本是已删除。也就是说，论坛上存在过的内容，和今天还能读到的内容，差了快两倍。删除才是互联网的常态。想拿社

Mastodon posts archived, revealing massive content deletion rate

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An open-source archive of Mastodon's public posts has been created by NodeLoc, containing 795,000 posts totaling 2.54 GB. This archive reveals a significant discrepancy, with only 49,460 out of 110,000 topics being truly archived. A verification process indicated that nearly double the number of posts that exist today were once present on the platform, highlighting that deletion is the norm for online content. AI

IMPACT This archive provides a dataset that could be used for training AI models or for statistical analysis of online content.

RANK_REASON An open-source archive of a social media platform's posts was created, providing data for analysis.

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Mastodon posts archived, revealing massive content deletion rate

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 中文(ZH) · mini24 ·

    110,000 topics, only 49,460 were actually archived. NodeLoc has made an open-source archive of all public posts on the entire site: 795,000 posts, 2.54 GB, and also verified the gap - sampling 600 unarchived IDs, 595 returned 404, basically deleted. This means that the content that once existed on the forum and the content that can still be read today differ by nearly double. Deletion is the norm on the internet. Want to take social

    11 万个主题，真正归档下来的只有 49460 个。NodeLoc 有人把全站公开帖子做成了开源存档：79.5 万条帖子、2.54 GB，还顺手验证了缺口——抽样 600 个没收录的 ID，595 个返回 404，基本是已删除。也就是说，论坛上存在过的内容，和今天还能读到的内容，差了快两倍。删除才是互联网的常态。想拿社区数据做训练或统计的，这个项目给了现成的： https:// github.com/HEXUXIU/nodeloc-arc hiver # AI # 数据集

    LINKS github.com/…/nodeloc-archiver

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