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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Anyone also think these kind of posts exist to scrape and create a database of usernames and try to match their real names? (alien.top)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No.

There are a lot of phishing attempts on social media, but this one makes literally no sense. Let's take a look simply at the one post here. u/nightmarepizzza put "aardvark."

So their name is...what? Alex? Amber? Aaron? Abraham? What exactly could ever be discerned from this? Also, we have no idea if they even took it seriously and used the letter of their REAL first name here.

If this were a scam attempt, it would be the worst fucking one imaginable.