@krusynth Interesting potential product idea that takes all your social touch points and "textifies" them, removing cruft etc. It'd be challenging to keep context / metadata and I'd be worried about loss of context = misinformation.

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> Always Be Opening.

i see what you did there... 🙂

@krusynth especially if your accounts on those platforms are yours only through an employer!

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also, ok, so, i agree with this sentiment broadly, but alternatives are so poorly supported that i have trouble wanting to voice it because i have no good answers to “so where do I put it, then?” for folks who don’t want to run their own servers (which, frankly, includes me, even though I have the skills to be able to)

do you have resources you’d respond with?

@krusynth I mean, leaving content on open platforms also has this risk: my Mastodon server could be DDOSed or randomwared or just die tomorrow and if I didn’t have weekly backups…

@krusynth Don't forget GitHub. And specifically, since git itself was open and inherently decentralized and something they couldn't use for lock-in, the issue & pr history of your project, which is also important.

@krusynth @PopeyeOtaku I still have emails and aim logs from 2008 😮‍💨

@krusynth I have to "thank" Google for erasing a file in Drive without warning. A short story I wrote years ago and now is lost forever.

@krusynth your information should never JUST be on those platforms.

Which is what things like photobucket, imgur etc should have shown us... but especially in a chat software sheesh.

Backups are not a new concept. Well, I didn't think so. One is none.

@krusynth and if you don't want to put in the effort, my rates are reasonable

@krusynth even if you don't publish it on the open web, at least have an offline copy you can keep reposting on whatever platform you want.

@krusynth I say just run your own site.

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Timely reminder.
migrating away from the surveillance honeypots secures your data, and removes your support from the ad driven model doing so much harm to society.
Win/win.

@krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town If people didn't realize this before the hate-reddit-fad, they won't realize it now either. This information has been known, and free software proponents have been warning about the issues of closed platforms for decades. The average person doesn't care, and won't care. Let them destroy their own shit over time and migrate to a new service every couple years to repeat the cycle. They can't be saved.

@krusynth True. But be aware that open content will nourish the closed powerful beast too.

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@mdyshel we're not the only ones

@krusynth add Github to the list

@krusynth What about cloud space? I don't care about Gdocs, but I do care about Gdrive.