Makes sense. Hopefully should an instance go down, a group of data hoarders would download its content to preserve it
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j4k3@lemmy.world 2 days agoNot necessarily. Like I don’t have my YT stuff stored anywhere any more.
Shorter format stuff – sure, and that seems to be the only focus really for peertube now. Most of the YT stuff I posted was like bits and pieces of my journey of creating a product photography studio and progress I was making while still in my collar with a broken neck. I also made electrical hobby and bicycle stuff. I typically uploaded long format with 20-40 minutes detailing what I tried and what did or did not work when fixing stuff that is supposed to be unserviceable or undocumented and like reverse engineering type content. Some of those proved to be a reference I used many years later. My digital storage has never been at a very high quality level. Most of my motivation is like here on Lemmy; I want to share and just be a little social while maybe providing some useful tidbit that helps someone. I’d rather relegate that digital archiving to someone else mostly because my life has never been well supported or super stable.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
I mean, that’s just poor archiving practices. There’s no reason you shouldn’t keep originals stored and backed up locally. You shouldn’t depend on someone else to archive that for you.
j4k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure, you can send me a nas with drives and another network switch, wiring, and pay for labor to run it, while setting it up to work with my hardware and firewall. I have no interest in these projects to support something maybe useful to you but that I already know. I’d rather just do what I do now and keep it to myself. I’m physically disabled with no meaningful income. Gatekeep your hobby and financial position all you’d like, but **** your random prejudiced negative vitriol towards strangers.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
Wow. That was needlessly antagonistic. I don’t know your situation but what’s happening is that you’re pawning off these costs to other people. PeerTube is just not going to foot that bill for you, so you have unrealistic expectations.
Also most of that stuff is unnecessary, you can simply get a DAS box and connect it to your local machine as a hard drive.