I read a good blog post by Lisa Charlotte Muth titled I’m bringing everything back to my website. In the post, she described how she pulled everything she has published online in various places since 2006 and published it on her own website. She created a term for this based on the IndieWeb concept of POSSE (“Publish on your own site, syndicate everywhere”), “ROOTS” (“Return Old Online Things to your own Site”). I like the idea. People who have published things they want to preserve on external platforms should consider bringing it “home,” or at a minimum ensuring that they have an archive of their past publications in case they decide to discontinue using an external platform or service (or if they lose access to things they published for some other reason). I will note that in certain cases, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is a useful tool for preserving old writing and media.
Re; Return Old Online Things to your own Site
...I got inspired by the concept of POSSE: 'Publish on your own, syndicate elsewhere.' For me, ROOTS is the logical first step toward that: 'Return Old Online Things to your own Site; (yes, I made this up). Why? If I do decide to delete my X account or if Blogger gets quietly discontinued, then I don’t care: it’s all on my site already. I own it. It’s all Markdown files and images that I can back up anywhere I want.