• laziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I’m at the point that I save a copy of any sufficiently cool image I see online (for art inspo or even if it’s just something that makes me happy) since I’ve lost pictures into the churning froth of twitter by itself after making the mistake of looking away for an hour.

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      *finds cool thing on any non-FOSS social media app*

      Cool, I’ll check this out in a minute or two.

      *turning phone screen on later, app shows exactly what I was looking at, perfect to continue where we left off, but then suddenly does loading animation, goes to home page with no way to return to what I was looking at*

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yep be your own archive. Every few weeks slap that download folder into a deep storage drive. Name it with basic descriptors.

      Oh shit that thing I remembers can’t be found or the site went through enshittification for their IPO or government said something bad. That cool youtube video from 10 years ago has been degraded to 140p …I thought it was in 1080p back then. Thanks gooogle!

      Ok to the personal archives. Search well there’s the copies. Lets upload that to whatever is [not shit]