People are always surprised and shocked when data is lost from some cloud service, either by negligence or intent.

And I’m like, motherfucker what did you think was going to happen?

They’re also thinking too small.

VHS was how we’d preserve memories forever.
Floppy disks were the gold standard.
Blockbuster was ubiquitous.
Sears invented shopping from home.
We were all friends with Tom.

Things that are too big to fail just do, eventually. Even great ones.

— Lesley Carhart (@hacks4pancakes) March 18, 2019

She understands. Most people do not. There are people who think (some in that very thread) that Google, Facebook and Amazon will be functionally eternal. They won’t be. I’d give Google maybe 20 years. Facebook perhaps 10-15. And Amazon 30 or so, and then they’ll be gone.