In the last few months:
– Tumblr purged adult content (and a bunch of stuff it misindentified).
– Flickr purged free storage above a limit of 1000 photos/account.
– Myspace deleted 12 years’ worth of music.
And Google+ only has two weeks left before Google pulls its plug.
Back up your accounts!
And if you can, consider donating to the Internet Archive. https://archive.org
On Wandering.shop
Expanded on K2R: Year of the Social Media Purge
I realize I didn’t make this clear, but I mean back up ALL your social media accounts. Mastodon too.
I’m not trying to say that these four services are doomed and you should bail. I actually have more confidence in Flickr than I did a year ago!
It’s that if you’re not running the site yourself, you can’t be sure they won’t change business models, shut down, have their servers washed away in a flood, or lose everything to massive database corruption.
Request archives from all your accounts.
@kline suggests helping ArchiveTeam crawl sites for those who can’t donate to the Internet Archive