Welcome to the Data Hoarding community!

[toothpastepancake]

This is a community for the hobby of data hoarding, and those interested in data hoarding.

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<br /><b>Name/Pseudonym:</b><br><b>Hobbies/interests:</b><br><b>Do you data hoard? If so, what do you hoard?</b><br><b>Why do you data hoard</b><br><b>Anything else?</b>

My intro post!

[toothpastepancake]

Name/Pseudonym: Astrid
Hobbies/interests: Sci-fi media, writing, coding, video games, digital art, creativity-in-general
Do you data hoard? If so, what do you hoard? Yes! I data hoard... random things. I currently keep two different drives: a main one with other people's media--e.g. TV show episodes, music and music videos, book PDFs; and a personal interest drive, where I have an archive of all of my social media accounts, all of my old writing, my google drive, my art, and my favorite fanfics (both by me and by others).
Why do you data hoard? One of my favorite obscure Soundcloud songs got deleted and now I can never listen to it again :( Also, in this day and age, you don't actually own anything you buy on digital, etc etc and all of that. I want to have this data forever. I'm ALSO worried about potential censorship in my country :'(
Anything else? Hi I am your admin :)

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[scifirenegade]

Name/Pseudonym: Bernie / Sci

Hobbies/interests: drawing, art in general, film, history, science fiction

Do you data hoard? If so, what do you hoard? Films, TV shows and books, besides my own stuff.

Why do you data hoard Preservation. Nobody owns anything anymore, and companies can pull the plug, and your favourite TV show is gone. Why yes, I am into the Lost Media (TM).

Anything else? I had all of Jacqueline Hill's available filmography (she was in Doctor Who), until I did NOT back up my videos and lost an episode of Angels she was in. I can't find it anymore.
Don't be like me. Do frequent backups.

Storage is cheaper than regret

[bedes]

Name/Pseudonym: Azure or Bede!

Hobbies/interests: I write, draw, code, and edit (gifs, images and videos), among other things. I really love animation and video games!

Do you data hoard? If so, what do you hoard?: I do! I hoard my own stuff (the previously-mentioned drawings, writings, coding projects and edits, as well as regularly backing up my and my husband's social media accounts), plus stuff related to my fandoms! I either archive things publicly (via one of my personal sites or archive.org), or privately (on Iris, my 1TB external drive).

Why do you data hoard?: I really got into data hoarding after the whole fiasco with Warner Bros removing several TV shows from their services for tax writeoffs. It was the catalyst to me realizing that I can't trust companies to preserve what I love; they'll make entire pieces of art illegal to watch, just to save a few pennies.

Anything else?: I'm an extreme newbie when it comes to datahoarding (as you can probably tell by me only having only one external drive), and I'm doing it on a very tight budget (which is why I only have the one external drive, lol). I hope I can still say some things of use when it comes to this topic, though! I'd also like to mention that I'm mentally disabled, so I may communicate in a strange way, but I promise I'm never trying to be rude or combative or passive-aggressive or robotic or etc.
 

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[luckyzukky]

name: melo

hobbies/interests: self hosting and other related nerd stuff, k-pop & j-pop idols, tokusatsu, dc comics, and more

do you data hoard? if so, what do you hoard?: i hoard way too much! i run multiple media servers, some SFTP servers, and have a ton of stuff spread across different hard drives. it's just about anything - shows/movies/music, idol media, comics/manga, books, software, and so much more.

why do you data hoard: i strongly believe in preservation, and especially that the proliferation of data is key to preservation; more than physical, more than one copy on archive.org, proliferating data and sharing it with others, multiple people having the same copies of the same thing, is the ultimate way to preserve something. and if you couldn't tell by that, i'm a big fan of torrents lol

anything else?: ask me about servers :)