@Aldo6 I started posting on 420chan using the name Jazzy long ago, I liked that place because it originally was for potheada and was chill with loli and shota. As times changed I was exiled eventually. I started to see things I liked, things I hadn't finished reading yet, disappear. The fact that I never got to see a conclusion to what I was looking at, knowing the conclusion was there, left a hollow feeling inside. It kept happening. Eventually I stopped playing games and simply started downloading things I THOUGHT were likely to be deleted. Then things I didn't think would be deleted started getting deleted. So now I save EVERYTHING that holds my interest not just works I think are "most likely" to be targeted for political reasons. I retoot to ADVERTISE artists whos WORK I like, it's almost never ever personal, I rarely talk to any of them, and I respect their work and their results, simple as. If their work is not advertised, it will not become normalized, if it does not become normalized, it will go away, or become harder to find. I hate sekret clubs, they are a pain in the ass. So I'd rather not assume everything will be there forever, because I am not putting up with the shit of joining some jerk circle. I am an archivist, at the end of the day people archive books, it's seen as respectable, I archive data. If one of my drives survived hundreds of years into the future it will give them a look into what people were creating now that is very, very likely to be erased and forgotten by history. That type of shit is the type of shit historians fucking salivate over, the stuff that's not talked about in polite company, in professional settings, because that's what usually gets preserved, boring, accounting, bullshit, and a few "high class" books and pictures, and that's it. This shit, weird shit, is the shit people don't protect. I am one of the guardians of knowledge. That's why I archive. And no I don't share anything with anyone because laws are stupid and I don't want any potential creepy fucking problems from creepy fucking people.
@Jazzy_Butts@gameliberty.club The thing is, I feel there are people who aren't archiving this for future generations hundreds of years into the future, but only with themselves as the thought. I don't feel they are as self-aware as you are or are looking at things in a historical context.
It's like the difference between long-lost or "missing piece" material being found and offering a "glimpse" (as you say) into the past, and a famous person dying and then people find 1960's nudie children mags hidden deep in the boxes in their attic and then they're forevermore "tainted" (this case actually has happened!).