Introduction and goals

[florianschild]

Name/Pseudonym: flori or florianschild


Hobbies/interests: Some hobbies include The Sims, reading, vegan cooking, sewing, learning Italian, fitness, painting and papercrafts. Interests... hmm it might be easier to list things I'm NOT interested in. I'm curious to a fault.


Do you data hoard? If so, what do you hoard?I have a small collection right now that includes ebooks, youtube videos (mainly fan made audiobooks that I've enjoyed), sewing patterns, and some random PDFs and images that aren't well-organized.


Why do you data hoard Mainly fear lol. But seriously, my interest in data hoarding is because over time I've seen things I love disappear from the Internet forever and it makes me sad. I used to naively believe that once something was on the internet it was forever, but that's not true! At least not without data hoarders out there obsessively screenshotting and saving everything.


Anything else? I'm very interested in how people are storing and organizing very large collections that you don't need to access often (for example, I'm hoping to download and store a MASSIVE collection of youtube videos, likely 300-400 hours worth of video, as a personal backup in case a particular channel ever went offline. I'm exploring the best way to store that, considering I'll hopefully never actually need it. If you have any suggestions, I'd appreciate that!)


Another of my goals for data hoarding, at least for now, is around preserving aspects of my very tiny fandoms. I've noticed that things I bookmarked just few years ago are already gone with no trace and sometimes I don't even remember what exactly it is that's missing.

Finally, I have a goal of preserving my own internet activity more consciously. I like the idea of screenshotting everything I write and all the ephemera of my digital activity. Comments on random articles and videos, posts on Reddit, reviews of products... I'd love to have ALL of that stored in one place just for personal satisfaction.

Comments

Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Hobbies/interests: Some hobbies include The Sims, reading, vegan cooking, sewing, learning Italian, fitness, painting and papercrafts.<<

I like a lot of those too.

>> Interests... hmm it might be easier to list things I'm NOT interested in. I'm curious to a fault.<<

LOL yes, same here. My home library has large sections of my favorite topics but I've got at least one book on most things.

>>Do you data hoard? If so, what do you hoard?I have a small collection right now that includes ebooks, youtube videos (mainly fan made audiobooks that I've enjoyed), sewing patterns, and some random PDFs and images that aren't well-organized.<<

There's a surprising amount of sewing patterns online, mostly stored as images, some text descriptions. Also some whole sewing 101 books are uploaded, and at least a couple advanced ones on tailoring and design.

>>At least not without data hoarders out there obsessively screenshotting and saving everything.<<

Yeah, if it wasn't for us freaks, most of human history would've been lost.

>>Anything else? I'm very interested in how people are storing and organizing very large collections that you don't need to access often<<

Well, the best I've seen for write-once storage is printing a whole library worth of data on a lab-grown diamond or other crystal disk.

>>Another of my goals for data hoarding, at least for now, is around preserving aspects of my very tiny fandoms. I've noticed that things I bookmarked just few years ago are already gone with no trace and sometimes I don't even remember what exactly it is that's missing.<<

Good goal. I've been leaning more toward independent websites than the hubsites. I don't like putting too many eggs in one basket.

Also for small fandoms, allbingo runs monthly fests and anyone can volunteer to host one on whatever topic they like. We've had especially good luck with quotations from shows or books that can apply to more than one fandom. small_fandoms is an umbrella community that hosts events for various ones.

>>Finally, I have a goal of preserving my own internet activity more consciously. I like the idea of screenshotting everything I write and all the ephemera of my digital activity. Comments on random articles and videos, posts on Reddit, reviews of products... I'd love to have ALL of that stored in one place just for personal satisfaction<<

Go you! I use Wayback, Ghost, and Archive.Today -- usually at least one of those will save a page. Paywall Reader is priceless for access.

Re: Hello!

[florianschild]

the best I've seen for write-once storage is printing a whole library worth of data on a lab-grown diamond or other crystal disk
Haha you're thinking big. Thanks!

I've been leaning more toward independent websites than the hubsites.
I'm curious what you mean by this? Do you mean building an independent website with the intention of hosting content for a specific fandom?

Re: Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Haha you're thinking big. Thanks! <<

Yep. If I lean a little to the left, I can see the bookcase of "in case of end of the world, jumpstart civilization" titles. I even wrote up a version in "The Seeds of Civilization" if anyone else wants to gather such a collection.

>> I've been leaning more toward independent websites than the hubsites.
I'm curious what you mean by this? Do you mean building an independent website with the intention of hosting content for a specific fandom? <<

It can be an independent website for one fandom, like this:
https://www.blackraptor.net/m7fic/index.htm

It can also be an individual author site, like this:
https://keiramarcos.com/

Hubsites are great while they last, because they can amass a ton of content. The problem is that they don't last. They shut down, or get bought by assholes and die of enshittification, or lock everything to members only. Every time that happens, tons of stuff gets lost to general visibility or altogether. With individual websites, they come and go, but at least we're not losing content en masse. So I'm trying to pay more attention to those in hopes of encouraging them.