I've thought about this a bit, as well. Simply as neither physical nor "cloud" services can really be expected to last. The solution, in my mind, is that there

I've thought about this a bit, as well. Simply as neither physical nor "cloud" services can really be expected to last. The solution, in my mind, is that there should be an open source standard of "grouped media items" which can be easily imported / exported between services (being: a diy home server, or a cloud service, or a "burn to disk" program, etc.) which then allows for easier redundancy and updating. For a very simple example, you could use a zip file that you upload everywhere and put onto USB/CD-ROM. But whatever the system is, it would have to be easy and attractive to use. I'm trying to go about doing that with building digitapes[0] but I don't know how to really build "a standard" other than building something and hope that it becomes status quo.. (I'm also getting way too into work recently, so I need more time and energy to work on it) It's a little bit embarrassingly unfinished in all regards. But eventually I want to make a system where an app allows you to easily share your files onto S3, which you can easily download onto a disk, which you can easily connect to mirror on YouTube, etc. All open source and independently connectable. [0] https://zukini.io/posts/digitapes-model/ https://zukini.io/posts/digitapes-model/