I've seen a few Wayback links to comment threads in the modlog used as ban reasons (which is kinda genius since it puts things into context) but why do people do that outside of that reason?

8 captures, mostly from crawlers. One of them lists "NationalLibraryOfLuxembourg" as the "why", which is kind of amusing. Not sure why they'd care

How do I check this

For Sunshine out of the 17 only one is a direct save by a user (on November 10). All the others are automatic crawlers or captured via "outlinks" where not only the website (such as a post or the /all feed) is captured, but also everything it links to (at least in theory).

You can see how it was saved by going to the calendar overview and hovering over November 10 and then the hour, and above the calendar it will display the reason/source as "(why: save-page-now)"

Ah, gotcha. Thanks. I had assumed they were all user-saves and for malicious / petty reasons.

I don't think I understand what "screenshot" means in this context.

How does this work? Or like why? I feel like an idiot.

You can input your url https://lemmy.ml/u/sharkfucker420 into https://archive.org/

I see 2 on yours!

21 baby!

3 that i saw immediately but im too lazy to check the page further

also holy crap did i join lemmy 2 years ago????

One for each flamingo!

12. But why tho?

I have 16 times.

14 times

What the fuck? What did i do lol, why are people backing up my profile? unless this is automatic, which in this case, still weird xd

15 times. Not bad.

Gotta keep you in check!

Seven. Some of them are from National Library of Luxembourg, National Library of New Zealand, Finland Web Harvest, Custom Crawl Services, Archive Bot, and Archive Team.

Seems like some entities regularly do a massive crawl of websites in an effort to archive them.

Thats it we got you in our library now. Prepare to be archived.

Yes please!

or archive.today/archive.ph/archive.is