I have just realised that Stories-like formats from Instagram, Tik-Tok (? have never used one), Snapchat, and their ilk, is literally ‘you produce the content for us, we won’t store it for longer than a day, and that’s a feature.’
Yep, it’s a feature for a platform, which doesn’t need to store all that crap on their servers for long. That’s very useful model to lower cost, and lose nothing, plus motivate the users to produce new content. Also, that may be useful for a user, if they don’t care about their own content. Which is kinda weird!
That was maybe my only truly strong motivation to have my own blog on my own terms, to own my content. To have this ability to review it years ahead. I’m commited into collecting all my content from other platform.
E.g. I have some content from Twitter, that dates back to at least 2009, if not even 2007, when Twitter was first created. I plan to migrate it from there to here. Since I stopped using that fashtech.
It’s saddening to see (and know personally!) quite a lot of people who don’t care in the slightest. Yo, that’s your life, it’s meaningful, and you’re just flushing your content into some toilet, allowing the toilet owner to earn enormous money, and also serve you some stupid shit — like advertisement, propaganda, and illusion of social interaction — in return. While diminishing you, censoring you, and attempting to make you not just the product, but also a customer of their service. You’d rather pay for the privilege too.