"@grok is this true?"
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Don't forget that if the location moves or is removed you are basically boned. Doesn't even have to be malicious. Link rot is a thing you can see if you ever go through sources on say Wikipedia and them no longer be available. If we cannot find the location of the info the info will be lost forever.
Even old Kiwifarms thread are mostly filled with broken links for anything that wasn't specifically archived at the time of posting. And most of those are within 10 years.
Video content in particular is problematic.
People are getting better at archiving individual videos off places like YT, but storage space is still an issue.
There's services as well like Preservetube, but there's not guarantee they'll be around down the road either.