I tend to either act as a data hoarder, but most of the time end up being overwhelmed with anxiety about having so much data. Even when I just look at my personal photos, I just feel impeding doom knowing it can only grow and grow, it will never get smaller.

I was wondering if this had a term.

And coming from this question, I am just amazed by this community. What has prompted your interest in data hoarding?

  • freedomlinux@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    IMO this was common in the past because inbox quotas were very small. With many services only allowing users to have ~10-100MB it was critical to delete things (especially attachments).

    When Gmail launched in 2004, providing 1GB of mail storage, gradually increasing to 15GB today, people’s habits changed. That said, my university email almost a decade later still had a 100MB quota and it was very painful.