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I could see posthaven turning into an API that any site could integrate with so that users knew their data was safe. Depending on the site and type of user dat
by eah13 14y ago
I could see posthaven turning into an API that any site could integrate with so that users knew their data was safe. Depending on the site and type of user data, this type of exportability/backupability could be a real differentiating feature.
- themgt 14y agoAny site wanting to position itself as a backbone of the open & safe net ought to itself be open source and have support for data import/export into a self-hosted installation.
- eah13 14y agoAgreed. Like Diaspora for data? :)
- tlrobinson 14y agoIdea: a browser extension that automatically scrapes and archives your data as you browse a site. Power-users can submit scrapers for new/modified sites. Normally scrapers can be detected and blocked, but if it's passively running in the background on a user's machine, opportunistically grabbing data the user is already viewing, it should be impossible to detect.
- toomuchtodo 14y agoRunning as an extension has been done before (SEE: PACER Recap Extension: https://www.recapthelaw.org/ https://www.recapthelaw.org/)
- garry 14y agoThis is a great idea. I've actually wanted to do this before. Browser plugins are one fundamental tool in the war against web tyranny. For instance, crawling Craigslist could be accomplished this way in a way that was unblockable. This needs to exist.
- Terretta 14y agoRelated: Consider http://Pinboard.in http://Pinboard.in with the yearly plan offering Personal Archiving. Anything pinned (bookmarked) gets archived and you can view it from your personal archive.
- eah13 14y agoI dig it. Store this data in the cloud and call it ViewHaven. An automatic and complete record of everything you've seen on the web.