One of my New Year's Goals is to start disconecting myself from Corporate Platforms (tm) like Facebook, Youtube, and Amazon. I realized I have a lot of my life stored there that I'd lose if they went under, and TBH that makes me uncomfortable.
First step is to backup my facebook and save all my tagged photos. I've got a new external hard drive coming to use as general media storage, so that will all go there, and my normal external will just be for system backups.
Small step is to start moving all my Goodreads and Libby data over to Notion libraries. Yes, Notion is still a company and it still does Corporate Things, but it's also easier to download all the data as .csvs to keep a copy safe. That's my main concern - I want to be sure I have access to data if the site that's hosting it decides not to any more.
Also, I'm really tired of being treated like a salable commodity instead of a human being, and this is my little push against that.
Later I'll work on my favorite YouTube ASMR audios so I have them locally and don't have to get interrupted regularly by ads when I'm relaxing for bed.
Any other advice of things to cache so I don't end up losing them?