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Is stuff online worth saving?

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127 points Brajeshwar | 5 comments | 17 Dec 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.012s | source
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zdc1 ◴[21 Dec 24 18:45 UTC] No.42481387[source]▶
These days whenever I read an interesting article, I will take 2 minutes to copy and paste it into my Obsidian vault under my Articles folder. I'll take care to paste the images as images (and not links) and make sure I've got the author and source URL at the top, and have my separate notes section link to it. It's a bit silly and obsessive, but given how transient content on the Internet is, I think it's necessary to make a copy of anything you care about.
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1. ironyman ◴[21 Dec 24 19:47 UTC] No.42481757[source]▶
I do something similar but with Discord. I made a server accessible only by me, and I have a few different channels like work, life, music, ideas, etc. I also send all screenshots I take into a separate channel, and set up a chrome extension that sends whatever page I'm on as a link.
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2. jay_kyburz ◴[21 Dec 24 20:06 UTC] No.42481908[source]▶
What if discord goes away. I would think you want the data local.
3. efilife ◴[21 Dec 24 20:08 UTC] No.42481923[source]▶
terrible idea. people get their discord accounts banned randomly without warning
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4. immibis ◴[21 Dec 24 21:25 UTC] No.42482449[source]▶
like recently they banned the entire country of germany by accident
5. accrual ◴[21 Dec 24 23:43 UTC] No.42483256[source]▶
Unfortunately it's not super easy to get data out of Discord either. Last I checked, one needs to carefully setup a bot then script the bot to download messages to CSV, etc., but if you're not careful with the account and bot setup, the export process itself could lead to a ban.