Data Hoarder

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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Is there such a thing as the opposite of a data hoarder? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by FreneticFrench@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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I tend to either act as a data hoarder, but most of the time end up being overwhelmed with anxiety about having so much data. Even when I just look at my personal photos, I just feel impeding doom knowing it can only grow and grow, it will never get smaller.

I was wondering if this had a term.

And coming from this question, I am just amazed by this community. What has prompted your interest in data hoarding?

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[–] Laskonova@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

TBH I am a weird mix. I back up the things I really really care about, then delete a ton of other things to conserve as much storage as possible. I regularly go through emails and delete anything that isn't a newsletter I want to read or that I might need in the future, and move the ones I keep to different folders. I regularly check to makd sure photos on my device are only the ones I truely need/like. I go through the documents I download, and start deleting useless trash and then highly organizing the stuff I keep in folders. So I have like 58 GB of just Ebooks and audiobooks (The ebooks and audiobooks are mostly Project Gutenberg and Librivox ones, but I do buy a few modern Audibook CDs every so often and put them on there, and Google Play Books makes it easy to buy and download no DRM free ebooks) and then like 10 GB of music from CDs, digital marketplaces like Amazon Music, and Bandcamp, etc. But then I also don't really have many pictures or videos on my phone at all. I just hate the idea of buying things or spending money on them, and not owning them for real.