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[โ€“] uiiiq@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Storage efficiency, faster queries, more metadata, unified format, etc. If your host breaks, you can download the journals and open then elsewhere. Also, there is nothing stopping you from configuring it to output to a file.

[โ€“] voracread@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Open them elsewhere is also true for text files I guess.