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Jason Scott has a post about the relationship between his trauma and digital archiving activities:

https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5443

This is the reason why I could consider myself a hoarder, but

> Hoarding is absolutely not laziness. A lazy person does not resist someone cleaning up for them!

tells me that I might just be lazy.

And digital hoarding is not too bad since I almost never see my bookmarks, it doesn't affect me much.

this is a sign the person hasn't yet fully ubderstood and accepted the inevitability of their own death. in their mind, they will live forever and eventually have time to visit each bookmark.

I do poor-man's bookmark hoarding; I leave tabs open on things I am interested in, until said tabs fail or the browser crashes.

If I don't bother reopening them, that part is passed.

Or storing terabytes of data offline.

Probably similar reasons but with less real-world harm.

Hey, what's wrong with actually owning your data? :p

(I'm watching Shin Chan again lately. Last time I used Netflix, years ago, I remember they took it down due to some licensing reason. That actually spurred me on to get it, and now I can watch it any time. Muaha)