Phins

maybe you did it to death already but I'll take a turn too, s'only fair And to be fair I did most of my ranting without knowing how much of a community had been able to transfer over here, I had just assumed NA's community vanished into the ether when I got there and my blood pressure started raising, it was only after more reading and went back hours later did I see what was going on

I'm just struggling with depression that I have to keep watching this happen everywhere over and over again, to places I cherished It never gets easier having people pull the rug out from under you, at least not for me Eventually none of the places I value will be left and everything will be gone

Fuck Instagram! Fuck anything owned by Zuckerberg or any of the other corporate parasites, they're literally not figuratively robbing us of our cultural history, and it's made me struggle severely with depression Not an indictment of you but an indictment of them, of course I take it all very seriously, this all means a lot to me I miss when money was far from people's minds when it came to the internet, it's hard to remember but it was that way once Not to be mean BA, I respect you, I recognize you from NA, but it feels like you're saying "they bought the forest to turn it into a Walmart parking lot, that's life" What even is the point of all that data? What exactly does it help them accomplish? I didn't consent to having my data sold, maybe I did through the TOS but on an ethical basis, I did not consent I am tired of being spied upon, by everybody, I'm tired of people watching me, I'm tired of people trying to collate data on me so then can psychoanalyze me, it's tantamount to being physically violated, it's an attack on our sovereignty, on our bodies, on our minds, on our hearts These companies are brainless packrat rodents collecting shiny objects to bring back to their nest, they don't deserve the internet The internet has become a soulless, all-consuming machine existing primarily just to pad people's bank accounts and egos and it wasn't meant to be this way, we are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death The internet of the 2020s is just going to be nothing but stripminers taking away things from us that are important and I for one dread it with every passing day Ultimately we can conclude the internet was a mistake and it wants more and more to drive people like me and you out with every passing day They paved paradise and put up a parking lot I need to make some IRL friends lol

I feel as if this whole debacle is just indicative of a growing trend, which is to say, the consolidation and gentrification of the internet, the "use your real name"ification of the internet i.e. the destruction of pseudonymity, and forcing flight to those who wish to keep carrying on the kinds of community structures that we had last decade, before social media and the corporate profit motives started stamping it all out It's hard not to feel mad when you see pictures like this, look below for a visualization The internet used to be a fun vacation destination full of hundreds of thousands to millions of unique, distinct websites to visit that people poured their heart and soul into it solely to benefit like-minded hobbyists, like NA, like DigitPress, like NESworld, and so on Now it's just a consolidation of a couple too-big-to-fail megasites like Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, an extension of real life destroying people's face-to-face communications, that force everybody else into their draconian, division-manufacturing sterilized walled garden ecosystems, at the cost of the collaborative, doing it for the love of the game attitude the 2000s internet was oriented around It all makes me deeply upset Websites like this contain the natives of the internet, the people it truly belongs to, and people like Mark Zuckerberg, people like the staff of GoCollect, are barging into our communities and driving us from our homes, destroying our sacred idols, buying us out of our own homes just so they can turn them into Airbnbs, and I'd be lying if I said I'm not angry about it every day, that internet raised me, it's meaningful to me

I think it was them who decided to go scorched earth asleep at the wheel with NA, and anybody being hostile on the way out is just responding in kind to how they were treated IMO Thank you for the kind words, NA had deep sentimental and historical value to me as it does to all of you

You're kidding me Spider-Man 4? What? Excuse me? I guess based off that title screen it was gonna be about Vulture, huh I always thought The Lizard would end up coming into play in the actual Raimi Spider-Man 4 movie as well, maybe bonded with a symbiote for good measure

I'll take it lmao, stare daggers into it and then the GoCollect staff will telepathically feel my seething resentment (btw im a girl)

An attack on their conscience is all you can do, show them that they're taking away things from people that meant something meaningful to them Also if user Quaze from "gocollect" is reading this nice job using autism as a slur, autistics are the indigenous people of the internet and I will not tolerate your wanton disrespect for them and they're talking as if nobody recognizes me, I know for sure at least some of the people in this topic not only recognize me but have done business with me before Grimalkin Games for life bitches (she's dead now btw) I'm on the same page as you I would love to help, somebody has to put in good in the world and create when people like this are putting in bad and destroying I literally put dozens of hours into manicuring my collection tracker and adding new games to the database for stuff like my homebrew/repro set, I'm nothing if not dedicated, I just get fired up probably because a lot of you are in your 30s and I'm likely a good ten years younger than some, I say NA was my childhood home because I was literally spending hours on NA when I was an actual child, you were likely all adults when you started so there's a difference of circumstance, it just ain't right

It's easy to say oh it's just the internet but I've seen it happen time and time and time again and not just to you folks

Just wait for me to cycle through the stages of grief and I'll be with you

One day, when we actually place proper value on our history, people are going to look at people who destroyed over a decade's worth of history and discussion the same way we do people who destroy statues in the middle east This is an extremely critical period for digital preservation

Dissent for the sake of voicing dissent I'm not wanting you to do anything I'm just acting in accordance with my values Maybe if they have any shred of empathy my message will make them realize that their actions have hurt real people and taken away their collective history Probably not though I'll be back later to reply to messages I gotta go

Trying to say anybody at GoCollect is a good person is like trying to say somebody who sets fire to a library is a good person We can't just let profit motives condition us into thinking this kind of shit is normal or acceptable because it isn't, it's sociopathic behavior

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Why_Back_Up%3F I think it's worth harboring so much anger towards and you and me can agree to disagree, I respect your opinion but it's my view of reality that we can't allow these things to keep happening Future digital historians are going to look down upon us with shame for not fighting harder for our collective history and I refuse to be one of the people looked down upon by them, not while I can help it It's not just blind rage, I have good philosophical thought-through reasoning for why I feel this way and why I pick up the sword to fight for preservation whenever I can, because I feel like it's my social responsibility Nothing I said was hateful and/or disgusting it's entirely reasonable I don't expect you all to join me but being this angry about preservation is very on-brand for me and it's my cause celebre so to speak so I'm understandably livid

Doing this sort of thing is antithetical to being a "good person" You mean everyone you worked with was good at putting on the appearances of a good person, of being "nice", which is entirely self-serving, instead of being kind, which is altruistic and empathetic This is a no empathy move and anybody lacking that level of empathy is by definition not good people, not now, not ever