The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BoJackHorseMan53 on 2025-03-13 11:36:35.

Hello fellow DataHoarders, I was a big data hoarder myself, hosting 3 peta bytes of data, until Google started to crackdown. Then I had to delete all the data from Google Drive.

I like the idea of lemmy. We can have our own reddit, free from ads and billionaire imposed rules and censorship.

I also believe in preservation of internet data.

The biggest problem with hosting a lemmy instance is data preservation. The lemmy instance with all of it’s data should be available on the internet 10 years from now.

I think the best candidate to host a lemmy instance would be usenet providers as they already have large infrastructure and they’re know to never delete user data. And this is what usenet was intended to be, but now, no one uses usenet.

If we can’t get any usenet provider to host a lemmy instance, would any of you with a stable setup like to host a lemmy instance?

The biggest problem with hosting a lemmy instance is data preservation. The lemmy instance with all of it’s data should be available on the internet 10 years from now.

The second biggest issue is getting promotion of the site and getting users to switch from reddit to lemmy.

If some of you are interested in the idea, we can work together to host our own lemmy instance with proper documentation to make it easy to onboard nes users.