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People have a tendency to misundertand everything I do, so I'd rather not get into specifics, but in summary:

- Intellectual discussions

- Fan made instrumentals and remixes (especially for Rammstein)

- Found footage, old shows, and other nostalgic material from VHS tapes. (wouldn't surprise me if they get flagged for having Folgers commercials from 1993)

- Random funny videos with swearing or vulgar language

Not a whole lot of things that are likely to be relevant to most people, but I've a culture of my own and I'd like to preserve that. To forever lose something I enjoy means losing a bit of myself and not being able to share that with others.

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I've been thinking a lot lately about how various small internet subcultures and communities that I've been a part of have been lost to the void. It's one of those things that makes me a special kind of sad and nostalgic.

Would you be at all interested in software that helps to construct a permanent showcase of the stuff that matters to you? It would handle things like archiving to enable a focus on curation and presentation.

I've been thinking of making something like this because services like the internet archive don't seem quite right. There's no context. I just worry that nobody would be interested in doing the work of providing that context.

Yeah, I'd definitely be interested in seeing something like that.

That definitely seems like the kind of content that would end up getting removed, but ironically is the kind of the content that services like YouTube grew up on.

How do you back up these? Just to a drive on your PC? To a network drive / server etc?

And what software do you use? Streamlink?

I have a hard drive connected to a Raspberry Pi with Samba installed. Samba is terribly slow, so I just ended up bypassing that and installing youtube-dl directly on the Raspberry Pi. I'd like to find a more robust solution, but for now that works.

Streamlink looks like a great project. Thanks for mentioning it!

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