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Is there such a thing as the opposite of a data hoarder? (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
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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?

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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, I once knew a woman who deleted her emails after reading them, back when it was more popular pre social media.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    One forum I'm in still imposes a limit of 150 private messages. Feels like ancient times. There are only a couple hundred members, so it can't be that much storage fees. It's not like I absolutely need these messages, but I don't want to sort through / manually delete them every few months either.

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