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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Do you collect anything physical? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by TattedUpSimba@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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So my wife knows I’m a data hoarder and she’s unbothered. Thank god 😂

But she asked me why do I collect comics physically when they could be digital and take less space? I didn’t have an answer so I said just cause haha. I was curious for y’all do you collect anything physical? And if so what do you collect? Also why?

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[–] Due_Supermarket781@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have 9kg of stickers. Most of them are in their original packaged sheet.

When I was in primary school, we had a sticker chart which had every classmates name on it. The teacher would give us stickers whenever we did something good or achieved something. I had a bunch of my stickers stolen from a couple of bullies and the teacher didn't really intercept or come up with a solution to stop their incessant harassment. 20 years later I have a galore of different stickers and enjoy looking through them time to time, also trying to use them instead of merely buying/hoarding them, especially to friends or strangers via postcard exchange sites.

[–] animatedhockeyfan@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I’ll help you find the bullies.