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 think stuff is getting backed up or collected somewhere either way. With the way federation works, anyone can spin up an instance and just store whatever they want from the instances they are federated with regardless of intent, malicious or not.