Are people backing up the fediverse?
#fediverse
Most fediverse platforms are run by common users, not entities with either monetary, commercial, political or geopolitical interests to keep the platforms alive. But that also means the instances could disappear when money gets tight, if the interest dies out, if there are technical difficulties that are hard to deal with, etc.
This brings me to the opening question, are people taking at least what they find relevant from the fediverse, and backing it up on web archival services, or at least backing up locally as screenshots, HTML/MHTML files, etc., so if their instance or the propagated contents die, at least there is a register the content ever existed?
The fediverse is approximately the part of the Internet that is least in need of anyone actively backing it up.
After all, all messages here are copied to many servers, each of them already serves as a backup. One more backup doesn’t make much of a difference.
Aside from the aspect of redundancy, the cross-instance backing up is text-only, so videos, images and documents/miscellaneous files to my knowledge still wouldn’t be preserved.
Yes and I’ve previously said that that is suboptimal here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/37873695/18832839