"Reportedly". Story from July.
Something more substantial than twitter anecdote post
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/31/tech/instagram-story-arch...
Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
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Re: Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
#12Yet another friendly reminder that your data isn't yours unless you store it locally.
And also that 1 copy is (eventually) 0 copies.
Re: Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
#13This looks more like they had a bug and lost a few, other than a static photo representation that was probably stored independently.
It affected a lot more people actually, including one of my old account’s main video posts, so not just stories. It wasn’t popular but still sucked because I was featuring penmanship in motion but now many of them are just static screenshots. But that’s the implicit risk when hosting on someone else’s platform so c'est la vie I guess. [1] https://www.instagram.com/sri.letterstudy
That xkcd is relevant again: https://xkcd.com/1150
Re: Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
#14Yet another friendly reminder that your data isn't yours unless you store it locally.
And you wrote/maintain the app that can open, process, and serve that data. And you can keep up with storage technologies as they age and become obsolete. And you can run a perfect IDS/IPS/DLP/firewall secure environment with your own custom self-hosted cloud. And your local cloud has four-nines high-availability clustering, power, and network peering. glhf.
Re: Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
#15Once they decided to block showing new posts for tags, leaving only the so-called "top posts", I stopped using Instagram as it stopped making any sense to me, i.e. I could no longer find anything interesting.
What did you start using, instead?
LOL?
You don't need to be glued to some social media service 24/7.
Re: Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
#16Yet another friendly reminder that your data isn't yours unless you store it locally.
And you wrote/maintain the app that can open, process, and serve that data. And you can keep up with storage technologies as they age and become obsolete. And you can run a perfect IDS/IPS/DLP/firewall secure environment with your own custom self-hosted cloud. And your local cloud has four-nines high-availability clustering, power, and network peering. glhf.
You're over-engineering what is otherwise a straightforward solution for this particular instance. Instagram allows you to save stories to your mobile device, so...
1.) Download your story to your mobile device. Congratulations, you now have your own copy of your story that is yours and not under control of Instagram. You could stop here if you want, or you could...
2.) Copy the file to another device you might keep in your home. This could be a desktop, a laptop, a NAS, a generic external hard drive, whathaveyou. Congratulations, now you have three copies of this (Instagram's servers, your mobile device, and whatever third option you chose).
With video content like this, they're typically in popular formats that are unlikely to "go out of style" any time soon.
Beyond this particular instance? You're still over-engineering things. Most people are pretty simple - they want to keep their photos and videos, maybe some word documents and such, music and movies. Those formats are so standardized that all you need to do is store them on any electronic device you own at home, and move them to whatever new device you get when you upgrade. There's certainly a non-zero risk of device failure, but as we see in this very thread, there's also a non-zero risk of data loss in the cloud, so... c'est la vie.
Nobody really needs all of what you described in order to keep most of what they want.
Re: Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
#17I do find that my video stories from months ago have very severely degraded image quality.
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Re: Instagram deleting archived stories, turning old videos into photos
#19Yet another friendly reminder that your data isn't yours unless you store it locally.
And you wrote/maintain the app that can open, process, and serve that data. And you can keep up with storage technologies as they age and become obsolete. And you can run a perfect IDS/IPS/DLP/firewall secure environment with your own custom self-hosted cloud. And your local cloud has four-nines high-availability clustering, power, and network peering. glhf.
Or you could just copy the JPEG files to multiple devices, using... files, without any specific app. You could use any old software that can copy files from one place to another, like SyncThing, which will happily sit in the background and copy your photos to whatever devices you currently use. If SyncThing stops getting updated, switch to something else. Or copy it by hand again.
Images are files. You do not need to be a computer scientist. If you want them to last, make copies.
Let me just preempt it ahead of time:
> "But what if everything I know and love burns to the ground?"
Consider the following: if all of your computers/phones/tablets/NASes/etc. are destroyed simultaneously, you might have bigger concerns to worry about than losing some photos.