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1. Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead: (giganova8@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 03:07:52 JST Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:
   Sifting through old bookmarks and files and realizing just how much stuff is gone now. :zt_sad:
   
   I've started archiving as best I can, but it's way too late for some of this stuff, some of it disappeared 6, 7 years ago, or even longer. I should probably delete them, but I can't bring myself to give up on maybe one day finding it all again somewhere. :gura_pain:
   
   I know I shouldn't be giving in to the :blackpill: but it's really hard to stay positive when you have hard proof of everything getting worse staring you in the face. And that doesn't even cover all the shit that I didn't bookmark way back when that I only partially remember, and now have to look for whilst not knowing one bit whether or not they even still exist. Times like this I wish archive.org had a more general-purpose search system, cause it really fucking sucks having to know the exact URL to find a page again. :akko_weary:
   
   Posting some fox with this so it's not just pure ranting and whining on the TL, can't be too negative or it'll just get worse all on its own. :turbo_sigh:
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   • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead: (giganova8@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 03:07:52 JST Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:

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     That being said, a bit of poking around leads me to believe there may be hope of finding at least some of this stuff if I can just find the right places to check. :holo_think:
     
     Annoying, but at least there's more hope to be had than just "sorry, it's gone forever lmao".
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   • PurpCat (V2) (need more art) (purpcat@marsey.moe)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 07:34:43 JST PurpCat (V2) (need more art)

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     Oh I know there were so many pics I wish I saved from art sites years ago when I was younger and dumber, and look at Twitter now 💀
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   • PurpCat (V2) (need more art) (purpcat@marsey.moe)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 07:35:25 JST PurpCat (V2) (need more art)

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     • PurpCat (V2) (need more art)
     Honestly I think the future is going to be to get rid of the Reddit/Discord/Twitter clustering because right now that shit is killing the internet and the fact that 2/3 of those are dying right now is good, it's just as with Skype dying a lot of braindead NPCs are going to the Next Big Thing from the same big company that one year ago they hated. But yet people aren't even going all to that like with Tumblr dying, the migration is fragmented between Fedi/Bluesky/Threads with a small bit of Nostr.
   • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead: (giganova8@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 07:35:25 JST Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:

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     • PurpCat (V2) (need more art)
     @PurpCat
     I didn't mind Twitter very much, at least in this context, given that nearly everything worth having was either impossible to upload there, or was scraped and slapped on a booru shortly after posting. It's the other two that piss me off, particularly Discord. :awoo_disgust:
     
     And nothing has gotten under my skin quite like looking for something, finding a thread on some forum of somebody asking about it, only to see them accosted and run off by some absolute nigger of a "person" crying about "NOOO YOU CAN'T ARCHIVE PEOPLE'S CREATIONS, ARTISTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO NUKE THEIR CONTENT UNOPPOSED!!! :soy_cry: ". I hate that shit more than anything else, cause it's the most flagrantly disrespectful thing any creator can do. Sure, you're not under any obligation to maintain free access to your creations indefinitely, that would be ridiculous, but how am I supposed to interpret willfully nuking your creations and keeping them from being reuploaded as anything other than explicit contempt for your audience? Whatever happened to "once it's on the internet, it's there forever"? :akko_weary:
   • PurpCat (V2) (need more art) (purpcat@marsey.moe)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 07:35:31 JST PurpCat (V2) (need more art)

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     • Lover of the Rebellious Knight Mordred
     We also still value decentralization, zoomers and boomers love the walled garden.
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   • Lover of the Rebellious Knight Mordred (mordredsimp@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 07:35:32 JST Lover of the Rebellious Knight Mordred

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     • PurpCat (V2) (need more art)
     @Giganova8 @PurpCat Much Like Anonymity, Once it's on the internet it's there forever disappeared as a principle. Now people share their names and identities with reckless abandon and people like us are relics of a bygone era
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   • eisai (eisai@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 07:36:16 JST eisai

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     • Clever_Moniker
     @Giganova8 @CleverMoniker You speak of games and art, now think what happens with stuff related to politics and science. Somebody references a first-hand report in a magazine which has long vanished from clearnet and is semi-blackholed on wayback machine.
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   • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead: (giganova8@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 07:36:17 JST Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:

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     @CleverMoniker
     It's usually a process more along the lines of "oh hey, this thing I saved reminded of something else, let me just look it up real quick - FUCK :tantrum: ", as opposed to me actually having something explicitly saved. :tanya_sigh:
     
     There's also the good old "reference to something else inside the story/picture/game/etc. with no URL or link, that can't be found anymore", which is real fun to find. :gura_pout:
   • Clever_Moniker (clevermoniker@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 07:36:18 JST Clever_Moniker

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     @Giganova8 >having to know the exact URL to find a page again.
     
     But when you save a bookmark that is what you are saving. What were you saving instead?
   • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead: (giganova8@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 07:36:22 JST Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:

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     @eisai @CleverMoniker
     But with that, there's well-made projects like scihub that act to preserve that kind of knowledge. With games and art, there's little to nothing in the way of preservation efforts thanks to a combination of copyright and the general sentiment that they're somehow "not worth it". I don't fear science vanishing cause too many people are too focused on preventing that. I do fear the last 30 years of cultural output vanishing though, cause nobody seems to give a shit outside a tiny handful of dedicated autists, and all the hosting sites are hellbent on making archival as hard as possible too. :akko_weary:
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