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Though I'm not a user and never liked the service myself, I'd like it to be preserved. It is part of internet history. Let's not let happen to answers what happened to geocities.

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Unfortunately Verizon has shown itself to be unwilling to work with Internet Archive and others that want to preserve this history. When Yahoo Groups shut down couple years ago, Verizon made no effort to help the archival and actually banned accounts that were attempting to scrape data.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/yahoo-groups-is-ending-...

Some things aren’t worth saving.

Tell that to the future historians.

Oof, What a mess it would be to have to dredge through terrabytes of online forum posts, tweets, and other nonsense.

But your point stands, looked at as a whole, and with data mining, I guess they could gather something about common words uses, time spent on the internet etc...

But I wonder who would really care about the flame wars, and chit chat 200 years from now.

Language researchers will definitely have use for it.

We are still having a good laugh at Ea-Nasir's[0] expense nearly 40 centuries later. I say we should keep these writings, especially as text is very lightweight to store.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/05/11/me...

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