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		aleph_minus_one 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful acc... > Creators are stuck between losing their life's work and paying up just to stay online. Concerning "[c]reators are [...] losing their life's work": you are telling me that these creators don't have private backups of their videos (or if they accidentally really don't wouldn't at least download their own videos from YouTube to get at least a re-encoded version of their video)?

babushkaboi 8 months ago [–]

losing a channel isn't just losing their files. It's losing their reach, momentum and shot at staying visible. Backups don't fix that.

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