50% of the time I'm "Back up all the things. Ensure everything is saved in multiple locations. Anything important or sentimental could be wiped out at any moment."

The other 50%, I'm "All information and metadata is ephemeral. Everything will eventually be destroyed by entropy. Cherish what we have now."

If you think of Nostr as a distributed database, it seems like it matches both depending on which way you look at it.