The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Exotic-Isopod-3644 on 2024-11-21 11:37:05.

Since we cannot have unlimited storage how can we decide what to archive? There has been times that what I archived has been a widely available on the internet a long time but what I haven’t archived and thought to be popular enough was taken down from the internet with little to no trace available anymore. Think about Youtube. Many videos get unlisted, videos removed or channels get deleted completely. So many genres of videos was lost this way. This happened to also to social media (web 2.0 in general). Tweets, FB groups, posts, forums… Things constantly get removed with a very little trace left on the internet. How do you decide something might get removed and worth archiving at that moment that you see it? How do you kind of ensure that will stay on some torrent or somewhere so that you don’t have to archive it personally?