/r/datahoarder was super enthusiastic about archiving footage from the Hong Kong protests, but not so much for the BLM protests. Wonder why :curious-marx:
The tools and instruction of how to save and take care of data from that subreddit are good, but they're no activists.
It's all about material conditions. Purchasing hardware for this is expensive and the act is time consuming, meaning that there's an economic barrier to this 'hobby'. Also, It's classic reddit techie stuff that bring along the reddit techie ideology - liberal or ""libertarian"" with only the interesting flair of being pro-piracy. That said, preserving this historical data, as well as things like media, archives of online spaces, etc, etc that the capitalists aren't willing to preserve is a decent task to work at (quite a bit lower than building socialism and ending poverty, exploitation, and imperialism, but still). It seems like a decent project for the terminally-online technically-inclined socialist labor aristocrat.
I always think about the way reddit wound up vs. Aaron Swartz's politics. Kinda goes to show you that if you aren't aggressively anti-fascist or aggressively using 'left-libertarianism' to pipeline people away from fascism then the fash just take over. Put another way, absent intersectional class consciousness any extremely online space is going to wind up full of fash.
/r/datahoarder was super enthusiastic about archiving footage from the Hong Kong protests, but not so much for the BLM protests. Wonder why :curious-marx:
The tools and instruction of how to save and take care of data from that subreddit are good, but they're no activists.
Not surprised
It's all about material conditions. Purchasing hardware for this is expensive and the act is time consuming, meaning that there's an economic barrier to this 'hobby'. Also, It's classic reddit techie stuff that bring along the reddit techie ideology - liberal or ""libertarian"" with only the interesting flair of being pro-piracy. That said, preserving this historical data, as well as things like media, archives of online spaces, etc, etc that the capitalists aren't willing to preserve is a decent task to work at (quite a bit lower than building socialism and ending poverty, exploitation, and imperialism, but still). It seems like a decent project for the terminally-online technically-inclined socialist labor aristocrat.
I always think about the way reddit wound up vs. Aaron Swartz's politics. Kinda goes to show you that if you aren't aggressively anti-fascist or aggressively using 'left-libertarianism' to pipeline people away from fascism then the fash just take over. Put another way, absent intersectional class consciousness any extremely online space is going to wind up full of fash.