public voit
karl-voit.at
Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

TL;DR: all of the content of closed, centralized services will be lost in the long run. Choose the platform you contribute to wisely now instead of learning through more large data loss events later-on.

  • @brombek
    4•4 years ago

    You realize that lemmy.ml is a DEV server that can go away any moment, it probably is not even backed up :D

    Said that I think you are right to be concerned and that federated open software can fix this by implementing open and easily accessible ways to migrate and archive data - something that closed network-effect ad driven corporate platform would never allow to happen.

    • DessalinesA
      8•4 years ago

      Just a note: We back up this server every hour, and when we turn this from the dev to the main instance, all the data is staying.

    • Maya
      6•4 years ago

      there is an indieweb concept called PESOS-- Post Elsewhere, Syndicate to your Own Site. I use the (awesome!) user RSS feed Lemmy exposes to grab everything I post here. I reformat it into files that go into my static site generator so everything lands on my personal site.

    • @brombek
      2•4 years ago

      Also federation basically means copying data all over the place so by itself federating helps to keep data alive.

      Like with Git if my repo server dies every dev has pretty much full copy of the repo so I am not worried.