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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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Is it worth it to hoard APK Games? I have like 1000+ APK of games I downloaded from 2011-2016 (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by lemonaintsour@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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[–] ishatum@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I would say yes.... for the following reasons:

- some mobile games get updated often, with the new versions being worse than older ones, or having content cut from them etc...

- then there are a lot of games that never gotten updated for a long time, and can no longer be installed and run on modern devices

- perhaps there are a lot of delisted games from the Google play store since 2016?

So I think this collection of yours does have some archival value! :)

[–] PirateSKB@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

8 gigs isn't really alot so I would say it's worth it tbh

Also lots of older data is getting way harder to find now, so it might be useful for you in the future too

[–] paulmataruso@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Would you be willing to share this? Torrent or any method that is easy for you?

[–] textfiles@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yea, absolutely worth it.

[–] NewHourSweaty4593@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Cool Archive! Find it all on apkmirror and if some apks aren't available, put it on internet archive or on your website.

[–] sh4zu@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yes

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