I'm late, but I can really recommend this: cobalt.tools as a web tool at least.

there's also yt-dlp but it's a pain to learn.

not really, they've ripped out all the features that make federation work, and presumably they're also on every defederation list just in case

you could tell me putin launched icbms and i'd be like "huh that sure happened"

seems like they come back after every single software update too

(not really just been busy with life stuff and comfier social media than new-new-birdsite)

silksong? /s

say, for the sake of argument,

(this post inspired by other people faking their way through their careers and myself finally deciding to stop giving a shit and doing that too)

i have a copy of every raw file i ever shot, in archival

have i ever gone back through them? never. but hard drives are cheap