In Favor Of Preservation Over Permanance

The author argues that preservation, driven by care, should be distinguished from permanence, which is forced on things, and that most content should not be permanent. Justin argues that blockchain has distorted thinking about permanence, where a permanent ledger makes sense as an accounting tool but not as a default for blog posts or comments. He cites the Internet Archive, which preserves web pages because people care, noting those pages were never promised permanence, and concludes that Web3 should be the "open web" rather than the "permanent web."