So I just went to archive.ph and archive.org to archive this url page : https://www.instagram.com/p/Chon-8JjeP6/

Because zeleski had uploaded another cute looking nazi logo wearing soldiers pic.

But no archive site could archive it at all and all the moreover when I refreshed the Instagram post page after trying to archive it, the nazi related picture was deleted?!?! Whaaaat?? It was up there for more than 24hrs unnoticed but suddenly when I tried to archive it failed and the photo got deleted??? (You can check it out yourself by visiting the url)

Edit: I understand why the site archivers may not work because of how a site like Instagram is designed. But the main point here is how the picture got deleted just after I’ve tried to archive them.

  • Arsen6331 ☭
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    2 years ago

    I’d say it’s actually nearly impossible to do it as described. If this was a small site, that would be a different story. Small sites usually have all their content on the server hosting them, so they can delete anything instantly, but a massive site like Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc. cannot do it this way due to the scale of their operation. Instead, their content is replicated across multiple servers, and changes must propagate to all of them, which takes time.