Just your daily reminder that unless you physically have possession of the content you've shared online, you do not own it. Hosts can go down, servers can fail, owners can change and some random employee can just decide he doesn't like you and bam. It's all gone. Get into self-hosting what you can, keep automated backups of what you can't.
Backups are easy to setup and depending on your current situation could even be free/dirt-cheap. This also goes for services that act as middle-men for content that you use. The popular example I've been seeing is if you're looking for something to generate an RSS feed for a site or service that doesn't have one naturally, stick with open-source solutions. That way you can host the tool yourself or at worst use an instance already running it from a semi-safe source. If you start to rely on a 3rd party then there's always the chance they could swap out the links/add code to what they're serving you.
In this example there's two great ones - RSSHub (which has hundreds of live instances) and RSS-Bridge. If you're hosting rsshub you can even integrate your own cookie or auth for sites like twitter and be able to pull those feeds ezpz (some instances already do that in fact). One-click deploys to zeabur, digitalocean and railway end up being around $3 a month. This concludes your weekly Public Service Announcement.
https://docs.rsshub.app/ | https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
