• Surreal@lemmy.one
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    Awesome work! Big respect to all the data hoarders out there, doing their bit to preserve the thoughts and opinions of the many!

    • feetongrass@beehaw.org
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      Data hoarders are a weird bunch that is absolutely essential to society. (Speaking as a steam game hoarder who has played less than 5% of the games I’ve bought. I just can’t seem to stop buying games)

      • stanleytweedle@lemmy.ml
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        You’re an archivist. Though I like that you own the term ‘data hoarder’ so nobody can use it as a pejorative.

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          Yeah I think data hoarder is like the geek/nerd from 90s. They’re (almost) no longer a pejorative, but rather a sort of badge of honor. With how important it is getting to archive data for personal or for public use, I can see data hoarder becoming a badge of honor in the future.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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      Lemmy datahoarder community is kinda dead though, maybe people reading this thread would like to subscribe.

      [email protected]

      Unless there is another community I’m unaware of. Also I don’t think that link works, not sure if there is a way to format community links that I’m not aware of.

      • dtlnx@beehaw.orgOP
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        The lemmy community is not big enough to fill such niche communities yet. It will come in time as more users show up.

  • Nathan Campos@lemmy.ml
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    There are lots of extremely useful information that has been posted on Reddit over the years, just think of how many times you’ve searched for things like “best X alternative Reddit” and found a great app suggestion, or when you searched for an error and someone asked about the same thing on Reddit a couple of months ago. This knowledge needs to be preserved and we do need to help the Archive Team out so that we can keep this invaluable source of knowledge.