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Actually, the way these platforms usually work is, 90% of your work is wasted and the other 10% isn't wasted. So for example, Reddit, Discord, and possibly Facebook (if it even makes it to 10%, as opposed to being -10%). (I could add YouTube to that list, but it's a pretty powerful platform till your work gets taken down.)
The ratio should be closer to 50-50, e.g. you take two steps forward and one step back, as opposed to having huge amounts of your work wiped out.
Idk, I thought I was making a good investment too in forums and wikis, but a lot of that got wiped out too. It's really tough, because with that kind of stuff, you're relying on servers owned by webhosts who can pull the plug at any time, and your backups are only as secure as the home in which you store them, which is not always very secure. If you get hauled away to jail, or the cops or Antifa raid your home, then you may lose access to that stuff, and it may even vanish forever. Also, storage media is subject to mechanical failure, unless you're investing in SSDs (I generally don't; I don't have that kind of money).
It's a tough situation. It's really just hard to make meaningful headway. As soon as you start to advance on a large scale, you get taken down, one way or another.
We have this huge monolithic media establishment in which the different companies are increasingly consolidated under the control of a few billionaires, and they often act in concert anyway, relying on the same sources and whatnot, and not wanting to be the odd one out when it comes to their coverage of stories. By being a villain, you can get some media coverage, but then you'll also get deplatformed, if that hadn't happened already even before you became famous. You'll also get targeted for prosecution or other police harassment (see, e.g., the example of Augustus Sol Invictus).
Imagine if Vintologi had 100 users. What do you suppose would happen? Probably the same stuff that happened to .co. They'd end up moving from domain to domain, server to server, looking for freedom. Probably the content would get policed more to avoid triggering the censors. Tbh even the doctrine of Vintologi would probably have to have offending portions expurgated, with the old versions sent down the memory hole essentially rather than even put on archive. Probably before too long, adolf512 would take most of the old content offline and announce, "BTW I've converted to [mainstream religion] and left behind my old life of sin and unbelief in the true doctrine. Praise Jesus!" I see this happening more and more as people come under pressure.
As long as Vintologi remains obscure, it may be allowed to remain on the Internet in its current form.
The ratio should be closer to 50-50, e.g. you take two steps forward and one step back, as opposed to having huge amounts of your work wiped out.
Idk, I thought I was making a good investment too in forums and wikis, but a lot of that got wiped out too. It's really tough, because with that kind of stuff, you're relying on servers owned by webhosts who can pull the plug at any time, and your backups are only as secure as the home in which you store them, which is not always very secure. If you get hauled away to jail, or the cops or Antifa raid your home, then you may lose access to that stuff, and it may even vanish forever. Also, storage media is subject to mechanical failure, unless you're investing in SSDs (I generally don't; I don't have that kind of money).
It's a tough situation. It's really just hard to make meaningful headway. As soon as you start to advance on a large scale, you get taken down, one way or another.
We have this huge monolithic media establishment in which the different companies are increasingly consolidated under the control of a few billionaires, and they often act in concert anyway, relying on the same sources and whatnot, and not wanting to be the odd one out when it comes to their coverage of stories. By being a villain, you can get some media coverage, but then you'll also get deplatformed, if that hadn't happened already even before you became famous. You'll also get targeted for prosecution or other police harassment (see, e.g., the example of Augustus Sol Invictus).
Imagine if Vintologi had 100 users. What do you suppose would happen? Probably the same stuff that happened to .co. They'd end up moving from domain to domain, server to server, looking for freedom. Probably the content would get policed more to avoid triggering the censors. Tbh even the doctrine of Vintologi would probably have to have offending portions expurgated, with the old versions sent down the memory hole essentially rather than even put on archive. Probably before too long, adolf512 would take most of the old content offline and announce, "BTW I've converted to [mainstream religion] and left behind my old life of sin and unbelief in the true doctrine. Praise Jesus!" I see this happening more and more as people come under pressure.
As long as Vintologi remains obscure, it may be allowed to remain on the Internet in its current form.
