To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands (www.niemanlab.org)
from along_the_road@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 04 Aug 2024 21:03
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xoggy@programming.dev on 04 Aug 2024 21:34 next collapse

For some reason I first read the title as “journalists take to archiving their own hands” and thought this was some morbid kind of protest.

t3rmit3@beehaw.org on 05 Aug 2024 15:50 collapse

Frankly, all content creators in the digital space need to do this. YouTubers have lost their entire corpus of work when YouTube deactivates their account. Same for artists on DA or Tumblr who get banned.

No one should be trusting someone else’s hosting service as their permanent backup. An 8 terabyte harddisk costs $100 at best buy.