Brutkey

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!