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by bfirsh 3274 days ago
What's the best way to automatically archive all of the data I produce on websites? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blogs, and so on. At some point these services will disappear, and I want to preserve them.

I know a lot of these sites have archiving features, but want something centralised and automatic.
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donpdonp 3274 days ago
The IndieWeb(.org) group recommends 'Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere' (https://indieweb.org/POSSE) that you might find interesting.
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aethertron 3274 days ago
The hypothetical system that makes most sense to me for this: a process that runs 24/7 on a server, watching your feeds on those services. Grabbing and saving everything via APIs or screen-scraping.
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fiatjaf 3273 days ago
Is that creepy resource-eater bug-prone service what makes most sense to you?
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aethertron 3271 days ago
Yes. Why do you call it 'creepy'? It's supposed to be a personal service, owned and controlled by the user who wants to archive stuff.

And all computations consume resources, and may have bugs. So what? They can be optimised. Bugs can get fixed. The process would, ideally, auto-update.

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