Are people backing up the fediverse?
#fediverse
Most fediverse platforms are run by common users, not entities with either monetary, commercial, political or geopolitical interests to keep the platforms alive. But that also means the instances could disappear when money gets tight, if the interest dies out, if there are technical difficulties that are hard to deal with, etc.
This brings me to the opening question, are people taking at least what they find relevant from the fediverse, and backing it up on web archival services, or at least backing up locally as screenshots, HTML/MHTML files, etc., so if their instance or the propagated contents die, at least there is a register the content ever existed?
I wonder if backing up the fediverse is a good idea. I have a mixed opinion about it. I think not all data should be saved. I believe we can delete them after 3-5 years.
There is no point on keeping every stuff we created there. Maybe for history purpose on how we lived here ? On old computer ? On good photo and memory ? Nostalogia ?
Dunno…internet and memory from past is an interesting topic.
Edit: typo
look at the internet archive to see why backing up is important. history is very important
Yes but do all my interaction here need to be saved ? I will forgot overtime and never look back. We can create a story like a tatoo.
And that takes lot storage space, should my data remain that long ? If it was a newpaper, a personal blog, a diary, bookmark…i would save them.
anthropologists would find it useful. look, i have said tons of stupid stuff too bit its anout the information as a whole.
Adding to possible fields backing up the internet helps, game development documentation, e.g. for RPG Maker 2000, can be a quest to find otherwise. Also finding forum posts if the forum is overly old or if it’s for journalism when a relevant piece of information’s been destroyed at the source.