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I don’t think it is stupid but the golden rule is multiple backups. I personally believe 3 backups is the minimum. A physical one and 2 others. Either another physical copy stored at another location to protect against things like fire or 2 cloud backups to prevent situations like this. But I have only ever met one person who did this. His house burned to the ground and lost all data at his house but had back ups at his brother and on some cloud service and lost nothing. I was impressed as most people I know have zero back ups.


I don't think the customer should be required to implement their own redundancy on top of the services they subscribe to.


I don’t think so either in the sense we are seeing in this case. As in there should be some legal protections like sure Apple can choose to close his accounts but should allow him a reasonable amount of time to export his data. But one should in best practice always have their own redundancies as too many times we have seen companies lose data for various reasons.


Yes, therefore it is better to stick with services that have open protocols, so you can rely on FOSS tools to handle redundancy for you.


Using FOSS solutions and setting redundancy is not going to work for average users.

I think you’re missing the point here, which is we need regulations to protect consumers against big tech.


Regulations that will do what? I think the parent is correct to call out the entrenchment of first-party services as an issue.


Sure, but until then FOSS solutions are the way to go.

Of course this is not for average people, but neither is making backups.


It’s pretty silly to rely an OS that you don’t own. Though one can be forgiven if you have basically no other reasonable choice such as on mobile phones.




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