Daojoan, to random
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5 years ago this week, I was writing the biggest @medium blog in the APAC region, and one of the biggest in the world at the time, with over 120,000 followers.

One night, while drunk, depressed and suicidal, I deleted my Medium account and everything I had ever written. Burned it all down.

A couple of months after that, I came to terms with the fact that I was an alcoholic.

Ever since then, I've been rebuilding my life, my career and my work.

it gets better.

syeedali,
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@Daojoan @medium
Consider reaching out to Medium to see if there's any way they can restore it. Given that it was very large, who knows.

Also, as another person mentioned, check the Wayback Machine.

reiver, to random
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The Web and the Internet are largely ephemeral — documents, images, and videos disappear all the time.

If you find something on the Web or the Internet and you value it — download it and save it.

reiver, to archive
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There are people who worry about information, history, and culture being lost.

They want to preserve it — preserve it for themselves and future generations.

They try to save it — save files, save books, save articles, save photos, ... save anything they feel is important.

These people are called archivists.

reiver,
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In some ways, ActivityPub & the Fediverse matches an archivist's dream —

Done right, ActivityPub & the Fediverse can make saving information, history, and culture easier.

How‽ — Boosting something is saving it, because a copy of what you boosted is stored on your server.

And if you are on your own server — you are saving it to your own (server) computer.

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