Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@LappenjammerDieZweite@social.vivaldi.net

Unfortunately this is a risk with any online service, even the largest
😞😞 (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/18/myspace-loses-all-content-uploaded-before-2016 )

What was the process by which you chose OpenBiblio by the way? I'm wondering if there's some way to improve the listing site. I don't think I've listed them on Fedi.Garden, were they on JoinMastodon? If they were listed on either site, they should have had daily backups to avoid this scenario.

Lappenjammer
@LappenjammerDieZweite@social.vivaldi.net

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services First I love libraries a lot and implicity trust them, and different from other organisations I know them and how they are governed.
Secondly I always thought they would self host. Never checked this assumpion until now. Feel a bit stupid now as I could k ow better about German IT infrastructure.

I want to stay as far away from big tech and US tech aus humanly possible. So even some European servers are not exactly desirable.


Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@LappenjammerDieZweite@social.vivaldi.net

Damn... that's awful, I can totally understand why you chose them, I would have done the same.

It's very odd they didn't have backups, are they definitely not going to have anything restored after November?
😞😞

Lappenjammer
@LappenjammerDieZweite@social.vivaldi.net

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Thank you 🥹🥹

They have written that all data after that is irretrievable

(
https://bibcourse.eu/t/https-openbiblio-social-down/284/51)

Being a massive believer in tech redundancy and secure storage of data and documentation this does rock my trust (as a non-tech person myself I rely on experts). I mean, if
libraries lose data, what is safe in this world?

Of course in my case it is "only" social Media banter. Just after losing 90% of my Twitter mutuals that either stayed or chose Jack's Next Promise I feel strangely vulnarable for losing a community in a time of need. Again.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@LappenjammerDieZweite@social.vivaldi.net

Indeed, one would expect libraries to take archiving seriously!