alissa
Friendly reminder if you're an artist, speaker, or content creator you need to save your own work. That random guy who films con talks may take down that video someday, it may get copyright striked, who knows. Your hosting site may just go down. You need to keep a copy of your stuff.
Screenshot, Youtube download, whatever, have a copy of your stuff and back it up.
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Show threadFor I am CJ   Dec 2, 2022

@dnsprincess

related: reddit actually has a fairly robust "archivist" community and the site's search function is usually "good enough" for people to find answers to many questions without having to be a registered/logged in user (because someone else almost assuredly had a similar question that was asked & answered in the past).

Show threadleemarkumDec 2, 2022
@dnsprincess This is great advice. Always have backups. Services can go down or change and leave you stranded.
Show threadalexyangworldDec 2, 2022
@dnsprincess hosting site may go down
Show threadJoshDec 2, 2022
@dnsprincess yep. Learning this the hard way.
Show threadcjeDec 2, 2022
@dnsprincess archivebox.io is amazing for this
Show threadFirehorseart Lives!Dec 2, 2022

@dnsprincess

As an IT person I'd say you need to remember that backups can also get lost or corrupted.

If you want to be sure, heed the advice given to students writing essays - have a backup in 3 different places.

That could be

1. Your PC hard drive.
2. A USB stick
3. in some Cloud storage.

Whatever you do, bear in mind that tech keeps changing. Your backups will also need updating to keep up, if you save them long enough.

Show threadalissaDec 2, 2022
@srfirehorseart Absolutely good points. I use a cloud backup and a harddisk
Show threadMarekDec 2, 2022
@dnsprincess Maybe upload it to IPFS?!
Show threadBurn This Dyspho Out 🐺Dec 2, 2022

@dnsprincess This is one of the most important things to remember.

I always copy my stuff on my external harddrive, have it twice on my laptop, take screenshots and get it on my phone, just in case!

Already lost some things (a year of photography) and don't ever want it to happen again

Show threadMorgyn HexxDec 2, 2022
@dnsprincess synology is a great brand for prosumer hardware to save your data too. a bit studier than just an external hard drive. (it has protections built in for data loss)