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LS Linus Sebastian Founded the YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips in 2008 and built it into Linus Media Group, a company covering computer hardware, tech news, and product testing ac...

“I'd rather an LLM scoop it up and then be able to give me the answer than it be gone into the ether. Maybe that's a controversial take, but I've seen so many forums with so much useful, valuable history just disappear, and it's so sad. If it's preserved in some way, even like a weird, creepy ghost of it, I think that's better than nothing.”

The WAN Show · October 2026

“I'd rather an LLM scoop it up and then be able to give me the answer than it be gone into the ether. Maybe that's a controversial take, but I've seen so many forums with so much useful, valuable history just disappear, and it's so sad. If it's preserved in some way, even like a weird, creepy ghost of it, I think that's better than nothing.” — Linus Sebastian, The WAN Show

Context

The hosts were discussing Discord making public community servers searchable on the open web, since many old forums moved to Discord and their knowledge vanished from search. Linus guessed this could set up licensing the content to AI companies, and said he'd accept that trade-off.

Transcript

The WAN Show Around 2:37:21 into the episode
Linus Sebastian

license access to charge people or something, yeah?

Luke Lafreniere

Yeah.

Linus Sebastian

Kind of makes sense actually. And honestly, I'd rather an LLM scoop it up and then be able to give me the answer than be gone into the ether. That maybe that's a controversial take, but like

Luke Lafreniere

my local one can find it on search.

Linus Sebastian

I've seen so many forums with so much useful, valuable history just disappear and it's so sad and there's so much lost. And just if it's preserved in some way, even like a weird, creepy ghost of it, I think that's better than nothing. I think that's pretty much it for topics for today. Why don't we…

Luke Lafreniere

here, let's actually finish the Discord topic. Beginning in mid-December, individual messages posted in eligible public channels may also appear on server web pages without usernames or avatars. What? What? That seems nuts. Are they going to put like fake ones or something? The changes will not…

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