I’ve been thinking about getting into it ever since that new Warner Bros CEO, David Zaslav, and Disney+ started taking a bunch of shows down from their services that are apparently good. It’s expensive, though, and space is at a premium in my small place. I think I’ll gradually work my way into it, but will be pretty particular about my interests and not just save a bunch of old stuff arbitrarily, but I appreciate those who do, because it’s how people like me can layer get ahold of it.

Yes. As they say it’s a disease. Though in my case it’s mostly limited to media. Movies, TV shows, take up the bulk of space and to be honest I spend more time on curation and tweaking than actually hoarding new stuff as I am a little picky and don’t just grab anything.

I collect RPG and tabletop wargame books that are interesting to me or as archives of old versions of whatever game. A lot of this stuff has been out of print for decades and so I download it when I see it. If I really enjoy something, I might track down a copy. But no way in hell am I paying $2~300 for some second edition rulebook of whatever game just because it hasn’t been available since 1983 or whatever the fuck.

throw in libgen chunks for empty space all the rest is whatevs

Yep, I mostly use it for books, gaymes, old websites, old mods, various useful utilities, OSes, offline AI horseshit, foreign pita to get films, and 360p quality shows since I can’t afford big data on my budget.

I focus a lot on offline, easy to setup since most of my life I’ve dealt with shitass internet, questionable power, and poverty and none of those are going to improve in my lifetime I assure you. My data hoarding’s saved my hide, neighbors’, or relatives’ quite often, as it should be.

I’m not as intense as any of them but I’m pretty proud of my media collection, especially the niche stuff. A lot of lesbian cinema, and though I haven’t watched most of it, I’ve got a decent collection of soviet cinema too.

I myself keep a lot of things, and I also like tinkering with servers, so I usually set up some kind of NAS. I mostly use recycled PCs from local businesses rather than servers because less heat, power requirements, much quieter, and cheap.

As for not being on that list I keep archives of leaks from antifascists and I’m a permanent seeder for OCRemix.

Never had the disposable income to go full data hoarder. Whenever I did visit that sub though it was always about the meta of how to obtain and store data rather than talking about the actual data itself. Maybe I’m missing something but I wouldn’t have thought it would matter how closely your media interests match others when you are just talking about how to setup RAID or whatever?

I keep a homeserver for long term bulk data storage, emphasizing things that benefit my extended circle of friends and family and that would be impossible to acquire physically. Film editions out of circulation or only at a premium, quality cookbooks, reputable guides to household repair and craft, niche trade and hobbyist materials, rips of CDs from indie scene shows, political theory texts that would be difficult or someday potentially dangerous to get through the public library (hello, marxist internet archive, and thank you). A number of older games and software titles, too. It is increasingly difficult and costly to get permanent access to essential practical and cultural works, and while keeping up a dependable archive is sometimes a chore, I anticipate the work will prove worthwhile in the not so distant future.

Be your own archive. Who knows when sites get yanked or censored or memory holed or what quality degredarion like Youtube does to older vids. Then I have DVDs and books coming out of my ears. Loke my walls are lined with a shit ton of books and I have towers of movies. Binders of data CDs and DVDs. (They’re more fragile than you"d think)

Don’t know about communities around it, sorry. It’s just been soemthing I’ve had the habbit of for since ever.

I’m pretty close to filling my terabyte hard drive with movies hardly anyone has ever heard of.

I like saving old things because they’re old

I also want to know how to rip videos off of websites (other than just youtube) because I know those will be taken down eventually

Well I have downloaded books in languages I dont speak.