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> Just because something exists doesn't mean it should be backed up.

/r/DataHoarder disagrees. It's pretty crazy the what people will back up these days.

I'm thinking about becoming a data hoarder. One of my favorite hobbies is listening to music on YouTube and reading people's comments about how that song was important in some moment of their lives. Most of the videos are unofficial, since the official ones have comments turned off. From time to time, one of these music videos gets dmca'd and sadly the comments are all lost.

There is a limit to storage, especially when you don't own it, and the usefulness of the content collected should be considered when you're backing up what is primarily a news and meme aggregator. They aren't backing up the Library of Babel so where does the line get drawn?

I think the line is drawn where nobody cares enough to archive it.

How interesting would it be to trace the evolution of e.g. TheDonald from parody to party to sewer, without the retrospective editings and deletions?

Yeah, there's a limit to storage, but it's growing faster than, perhaps, you warrant.

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