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1.     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 07:56:52 UTC     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

   More on 'federation is secretly sysadmin worship'.

   Context: MySpace losing 13yof data to [ https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html ].... Excerpt from BoingBoing comments by Cory Doctorow:
   "Someday, this will happen to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Don't trust the platforms to archive your data."

   Someday you will lose your personal-server HDD, too. And discover your backup strategy doesn't work.

   Someday so will the 'instance' you've farmed out all responsibility to.

   • Stephen Michael Kellat repeated this.
   •     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 08:03:12 UTC     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

     in reply to

     Just below that is this:
     "The Internet Archive will host anything freely distributable, for free, forever, and they have mirrors of their servers in [...]"

     An actually interesting idea ...

     which I have not yet seen take off in the #Fediverse #CuresCancer circle. And which, notably, does not require server-to-server federation to work. Just content licensing.

     (* There are at least a couple of podcast-publishing tools that can save to IA. Note however that podcast servers are not federated.)

     Stephen Michael Kellat repeated this.